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INSIDE Groves Council Gets Update On Campus And ‘Lox Commons’

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council heard an update Tuesday on the status of development of the new Palm Beach State College campus on Southern Blvd., as well as the commercial property to go on about a quarter of the 94-acre site.

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Courts Might Need To Settle Botched Vote Count New Wellington Figures Put Margolis, Willhite And Greene On Council

County Bus Tour Offers A Roadside View Of The Acreage

Members of the Palm Beach County Commission joined county administrators and staff on a fact-finding bus tour last week of the county’s rural areas west of State Road 7. The tour was in anticipation of a county commission workshop Wednesday, March 28. Page 7 Wellington Vice Mayor Matt Willhite filed a lawsuit Tuesday contesting the initial returns reported after the March 13 vote. Willhite (left) is shown here outside the Palm Beach County Courthouse with supporter State Rep. Joseph Abruzzo (D-District 85).

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Wellington Hosts Neil Zirconia Tribute To Neil Diamond Show

Neil Zirconia, also known as Chuck LaPaglia, performed a Neil Diamond tribute concert Saturday, March 17 at the Wellington Amphitheater. Page 9

Art Showcase At RPBHS

Royal Palm Beach High School hosted its annual “Feeder Pattern Art Showcase” on Thursday, March 15 in the school cafeteria. The exhibit featured artwork

by RPBHS students as well as students from several area middle and elementary schools.

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OPINION Wellington Needs To Hand Count The Ballots

Thanks to the Supervisor of Elections Office, Wellington’s government now has a serious legitimacy problem. Given how the current election results came about, a significant portion of the population will not accept the outcome unless extraordinary means are used to prove that the latest count is the correct count. There needs to be another step here, and luckily, we have paper ballots for this very reason. Page 4 DEPARTMENT INDEX NEWS ............................. 3 - 11 OPINION .................................4 CRIME NEWS .........................6 NEWS BRIEFS........................ 8 POLO/EQUESTRIAN ............ 13 SCHOOLS .....................14 - 15 PEOPLE ............................... 16 COLUMNS .................... 25 - 26 BUSINESS .................... 27 - 29 CAMPS .........................30 - 33 SPORTS ........................ 39 - 42 CALENDAR ...................44 - 45 CLASSIFIEDS ................ 46 - 50 Visit Us On The Web At WWW.GOTOWNCRIER.COM

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By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report A vote-counting mix-up last week has left Wellington candidates unsure of the rightful winners of the March 13 election. The confusion has led to the filing of several lawsuits and plenty of finger pointing.

In what officials are calling an unprecedented anomaly, a routine audit of the election revealed that votes were tallied improperly by computers when the results were initially counted.

Results of a recount ordered Monday change the outcome of the election — but gaps in Florida laws that have been reconfigured time and again after previous election disasters have left officials wondering how to proceed.

New counts show that Matt Willhite was re-elected to Seat 4 and candidate John Greene was elected to Seat 1, not Al Paglia to Seat 4 and Shauna Hostetler to Seat 1, as reported last week.

Strong Pro-SR 7 Showing At FDOT’s Public Hearing

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report More than 1,000 residents Wednesday attended the final Florida Department of Transportation public hearing on the completion of State Road 7 to Northlake Blvd., with advocates outnumbering opponents about 2-to-1.

The connection would finish the roadway between Okeechobee Blvd. and Northlake Blvd. to meet the growing travel needs of central Palm Beach County residents.

FDOT officials noted the nearest north/south connections are Florida’s Turnpike to the east and Seminole Pratt Whitney Road to the west, and that the Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization and other transportation agencies have identified the completion of SR 7 as a high-priority road.

The selected corridor would complete the connection ending at Persimmon Blvd. now, and continue north to 60th Street North, turn east along 60th Street, and

head north again along the original SR 7 corridor designated by the FDOT in 1940, part of which has been built from Northlake Blvd. south to the Ibis east entrance.

The project proposes to widen SR 7 from two to four lanes from Okeechobee Blvd. to 60th Street and construct a new four-lane divided highway from 60th Street to Northlake.

The estimated cost for the project is about $70 million for construction and about $16.5 million for mitigation. The project is fully financed, according to FDOT officials.

The completion of the extension has been opposed by the City of West Palm Beach and Mayor Jeri Muoio, who lives in Ibis. The city’s objections have been on environmental grounds and concerns that a hazardous waste spill could contaminate the West Palm Beach water supply to the east of the proposed extension. The most recent objection has been that

environmental mitigation would be too expensive.

Commissioner Jess Santamaria was the first speaker at the public hearing, which went on for about two hours. Santamaria pointed out that the Palm Beach County Commission earlier that day had approved a resolution supporting the completion of the road.

“This roadway has been on the county’s long-range transportation plan since 1972,” Santamaria said. “The county has already constructed a portion of this roadway north to Persimmon Blvd., and the segment was built with full protection of the Pond Cypress Natural Area, and this extension is considered a necessary connection for adequate traffic flow in the western area.”

Muoio spoke next, urging the FDOT to exercise a no-build option.

“In these tough economic times, the conversation should be about conservative fiscal responsibility,” See SR 7, page 18

Commissioners Reject Inspector General Lawsuit Settlement Offer

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Palm Beach County Commission on Tuesday rejected a settlement proposal from 15 cities involved in a lawsuit challenging the method of payment to support the Office of Inspector General.

Several speakers asked commissioners to reject the settlement agreement, and only one person, Richard Radcliffe, executive director of the Palm Beach County League of Cities, which is leading the lawsuit, spoke in favor.

“We have developed what I can represent as a last best settlement offer,” said Assistant County Attorney Leonard Berger, who has been representing the county in the negotiations.

Berger presented an ordinance for the commission’s consideration that would have provided a fee on contracts, with numerous exemptions, rather than use the state’s LOGER (local government

electronic reporting) system currently being utilized to calculate fees. He said cities have also discussed what might be paid, with West Palm Beach considering paying a flat fee of $100,000. Other cities have not made specific offers, Berger said.

“Your choices today would be to accept this and direct staff to go forward with the amendment,” he said, or to continue with the process, which includes a dispute resolution meeting between county and city representatives scheduled for Monday, March 26 at 9 a.m. at West Palm Beach City Hall.

During public comment, Loxahatchee Groves resident Dennis Lipp, formerly an assistant to County Commissioner Jess Santamaria, opposed any exemptions, except possibly for contracts of less than $1,000.

Lipp said he sat in on meetings of the drafting committee that set up the Office of the Inspector Gen-

eral. “We went through this,” Lipp said. “We went through this when we finally decided on the LOGER system. That would be so much easier to use, and then everybody would pay their fair share.”

Lipp pointed out that some of the largest corporations in the state would be exempt, including AT&T and FPL. “Do you know how much money FPL made last year?” Lipp asked. “Just under a billion dollars. That one-quarter of one percent that our little county gets would be less than a hundred grand.”

He pointed out that an exemption for administrative contracts included Loxahatchee Groves, which has a contractual form of government, and has already agreed to pay its share. “I already talked to our town manager. He said one quarter of one percent, no problem,” Lipp said. “Why is that going to be exempted? It’s See SETTLEMENT, page 18

Meanwhile, mayoral candidate Bob Margolis still defeated incumbent Darell Bowen, but by a slim margin. Recounted results show that Margolis took 2,947 votes (50.6 percent) to Bowen’s 2,877 votes (49.4 percent).

In the Seat 1 race, Greene came out ahead of Hostetler. Greene took 2,956 votes (51.85 percent) to Hostetler’s 2,745 votes (48.15 percent).

Meanwhile, for Seat 4, incumbent Willhite had the highest winning margin of any race — 3,341 votes (58.07 percent) to Paglia’s 2,412 votes (41.93 percent).

The Wellington Canvassing Board is slated to meet Tuesday, March 27 at the Wellington municipal complex to certify the new results.

The computer glitch was discovered Monday during an audit of the election.

“In reviewing the computer programming, we established the election using the sequence of May-

or, Seat 1 and Seat 4,” Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher explained. “The computer program auto-generates ballot styles and scanner programming. In reviewing the automatically generated sequence, the computer program inadvertently changed the sequence of the races to Seat 1, Seat 4 and Mayor; therefore, the counting of the scanner cartridges on election night were not reflective of the actual voted ballots. This is why we conduct the post-election audits.”

Meanwhile, Willhite filed a lawsuit Tuesday afternoon asking for a court order to stop the board from accepting the incorrect results. He said he hoped the issue would be resolved Tuesday and that it would not require court intervention.

Greene told the Town-Crier Wednesday that he planned to file a similar lawsuit Thursday.

“We want to make sure we put See VOTE GLITCH, page 18

EASTER BUNNY VISIT

The Easter Bunny arrived at the Mall at Wellington Green on Saturday, March 17. Shown here, Sara and Santino Spidalieri join him for a photo. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 5 PHOTO BY LAUREN MIRÓ/TOWN-CRIER

Rebuild Underway At Tiger Shark Cove

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Residents young and old were out working this week to restore a beloved but aging playground as Wellington began its rebuild of the playground at Tiger Shark Cove Park.

The playground, located at the corner of Greenview Shores and Greenbriar boulevards, was built in 2000 through a community-led

effort. Now, residents are stepping up once again to help renovate the park.

The rebuild began Wednesday, March 21 and will be completed Saturday, March 24.

Volunteers are working in shifts from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., guided by experts from Leathers & Associates.

Volunteers can sign up for any See REBUILD, page 7

Members of the Palm Beach Central High School Key Club sit on the playground’s iconic tiger shark.

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RPB Council Agrees To Reconsider Hedge Height Rules

New RPB Council — (L-R) Councilman Richard Valuntas, Councilwoman Martha Webster, Mayor Matty Mattioli, Vice Mayor Fred Pinto and Councilman Jeff Hmara.

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By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Complaints about regulation of hedge heights have led the Royal Palm Beach Village Council to reconsider its existing code.

The council discussed the rules with village staff Thursday, March 15 and agreed to consider an ordinance that would raise hedge and fence height limits from 6 to 8 feet in back and side yards.

Director of Community Development Robert Hill said his staff had found more than 500 hedge height violations in the village.

“It has become evident that many people throughout the village are seeking some kind of relief from the maximum height re-

strictions that we have as it is related to fences and hedges,” Hill said, explaining that the current code allows a maximum height of 6 feet at the rear and sides and 4 feet in front.

Hill noted that surrounding communities, including Wellington and Greenacres, have similar regulations but have mechanisms to allow hedges to grow taller.

Hill said the violations are generally taken care of promptly when the homeowner is given a courtesy notice, but pointed out that some of the hedges are planted to conceal air conditioners or sewage lift stations and are aesthetically appealing, although they

technically violate height regulations.

“We’re opening this up for review and discussion, and we’d like to know how to handle this,” HiIl said, noting that some developments have been granted variances for beautification reasons, but others have installed hedges without approval that exceed existing height limits.

Hill said that some of the ordinances up for review date back to the 1960s. He added that Planning & Zoning Director Bradford O’Brien had expressed concerns about the uniform height and expectations of residents, while Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office See HEDGES, page 18

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Groves Council Updated On Campus And ‘Loxahatchee Commons’

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council heard an update Tuesday on the status of development of the new Palm Beach State College campus on Southern Blvd., as well as the commercial property to go on about a quarter of the 94-acre site.

Town Manager Mark Kutney said he had met with the commercial developers as well as college representatives about plans for the Simon property at Southern Blvd. and B Road. Representatives from both parts of the project were on hand to give presentations.

Bob Bentz with Land Design South explained the commercial portion of the project, known as Loxahatchee Commons.

Bentz noted that he had spent the last two years walking the Simon property through the comprehensive plan amendment process, which was completed last summer.

The mixed-use designation assigned the property will now have to change, he said.

The college portion will revert to rural residential, which is an acceptable state land use for an educational campus, while the remaining portion will be commercial retail, where the density would increase slightly from 91,000 square feet to 94,000 square feet.

“The reason for that is that in Loxahatchee Groves, you have a defined building coverage of 10 percent, which is a very, very low building coverage,” Bentz said.

He said the new comp plan process will start over the next few months.

Access in and out of the property would be at three different points on Southern Blvd., with

right turns only both in and out.

One would be for the commercial property, another shared with the college and another exclusively for the college.

Discussion has also centered on nearby Tangerine Drive, which has been envisioned as a sort of main street for the town, Bentz said.

“Tangerine is kind of a frontage road that runs parallel to Southern Blvd. and a connector that runs from this property to the east,” he said. “The proposal is to terminate it at the western edge of the commercial property as an access drive.”

There would be two access points on B Road, one for the commercial area and one for the college.

“Our main access point is Tangerine Drive, and it has been expressed to us through the process over the last several years that Tangerine is your main street,” Bentz said. “You do want to have retail shops located adjacent to it and along that site, and that is really the main focal point of our site plan.”

He estimated that about 20 different tenants would be in the site overall. Of those, at least 15 or 16 of them would be right on Tangerine. The two access roads would intersect at the center of the site, which would be the key trade point of the property. The north/south road would run through the parking area, and Tangerine Drive would have limited access to the parking.

“Tangerine is really designed to be more of a road,” he said, adding that both roads would be treated with pavers to slow down traffic and give it more of a distinctive look.

“There are a variety of openspace areas,” he said, pointing out a lake planned for the north end of the property. “This lake you see is actually quite large. That is about a six-and-a-half-acre lake on the property. That is about 30 percent of the property. It will be a significant water feature.”

Bentz said the project is designed to be a gathering place for Loxahatchee Groves residents, as well as a retail center. In between the two rows of buildings along Tangerine will be an open area for dining or just gathering. To the north will be another passive area where people can sit by the lake, which will have an equestrian trail running around it.

It is also intended as a place for students from the college to gather and dine, he said. Architectural features will attempt to preserve the Rural Vista elements espoused by the town, Bentz added.

The largest building on the site is planned to be a medium-sized grocery store of about 45,000 square feet.

B Road is proposed to be paved from Southern Blvd. to Okeechobee Blvd., with conventional paving from Collecting Canal to Southern and open graded emulsified mix (OGEM) from Collecting Canal to Okeechobee, with trafficcalming devices along the road.

Bentz noted that the developers would pay for the paving.

Collene Walter with Urban Design Kilday Studios, which is doing the planning for the college, said a recent workshop between college and town officials had been very fruitful.

She said because the town’s comprehensive plan does not speak specifically to colleges,

language would be written for that.

“Creating special policies is a very appropriate way to address the future development on the parcel,” Walter said. “We also discussed the treatment of the northern buffer and the proposal to have a 110-foot separation from the properties on Collecting Canal Road, and they included the 60-foot canal right of way and a minimum 50-foot buffer that would be proposed on the north side of the property.”

The buffer was created at the insistence of Councilman Tom Goltzené, who said residents on Collecting Canal Road had expressed concern about the proximity of the school.

She said they also discussed architectural design, and the college plans to have designs that are consistent with the town’s, but would not necessarily follow the town’s Rural Vista guidelines.

“What has been proposed was that the college would create its own design guidelines that would govern development of the site,” Walter said.

She said the college would also develop a master plan for the campus to submit to the town. “This is a long-term initiative for the college,” she said. “It takes over 50 years essentially to develop a college campus.”

Bernard Zyscovich with Zyscovich Architects said his company heard loudly and clearly in the previous workshop that Loxahatchee Groves is a special place.

“We’re trying to address that particular issue in both the master plan and also the design guidelines,” Zyscovich said.

Loxahatchee Groves Town Clerk Jan Moore swears in councilmen Ryan Liang and Ron Jarriel for new terms at the start of Tuesday’s meeting.

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St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser March 30 At Village Park On Friday, March 30, four rival high schools will team up at Wellington Village Park in an effort to raise $100,000 for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Beginning at 4 p.m., students and teachers from Palm Beach Central High School, Wellington High School, the Dreyfoos School of the Arts and Cardinal Newman High School will say goodbye to their locks at a massive head-shaving extravaganza.

This exciting, family-friendly event, dubbed “Wellington Kids Care 2012,” will also feature a “Dream Big” carnival featuring games, inflatables, food and prizes. Whether you decide to shave your head, cut you hair for Locks of Love, volunteer or make a do-

nation, your participation will go a long way to help save lives.

Village Park is located at 11700 Pierson Road. For more information about this event or to make a donation, visit www.stbaldricks. org/events/mypage/7599/2012 or contact Donald Meyers at donald. meyers@palmbeachschools.org.

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. For more info., visit www.stbaldricks. org.

For further information about this event, call Wellington Community Projects Manager Kim Henghold at (561) 791-4137.

High School Drama Students Take To Amphitheater Stage March 31

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report Wellington residents looking for a night of theater can get a taste of three local high schools’ talented students during “A Touch of Broadway: A Musical Preview” at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 31 at the Wellington Amphitheater.

For the second year in a row, students will take to the stage in front of a hometown crowd to perform selections from their high school musicals.

This year, the evening will feature students from the King’s Academy performing scenes from Les Misérables, Wellington High School performing scenes from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Wellington Christian School performing the Brothers Grimm version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Wellington Councilwoman Anne Gerwig spearheaded the event last year, giving residents a chance to preview some of the talented students in local musicals.

“I thought it would be fun to show off all of the high school musicals and bring some great entertainment to the amphitheater,” she said. “They have spent so many hours on this, and I thought it would be a good way to showcase their talent.”

In return, it offers free publicity for the shows. Gerwig said that the aim is to get people interested in purchasing tickets to see the whole play.

“It gives them an idea of the

play,” she said. “Then they can decide if they want to go see the whole play. I went to all of them last year. After the event last year, I wanted to go see all the shows.”

That is exactly what she hopes residents do this year, she said.

“We want them to see the level of talent in our schools and, if they’re interested in the musical, to go and buy tickets to go see it,” Gerwig said. “We want it to be a crossmarketing platform. The amphitheater gets great entertainment, and

the high schools get some free publicity.”

Last year’s preview was a success, she said, with parents, friends and family coming out to support the students. She also noted that the King’s Academy’s production of Beauty and the Beast sold out every performance.

“A lot of people came out to the amphitheater to see it,” she said.

“It’s so great to see kids you know performing on the stage for the community.”

With the amount of talent in Wellington schools, Gerwig said that it’s sure to be a great night of entertainment. “We have some very talented kids in Wellington,” she said. “To me, that’s what the amphitheater is just screaming for.

It’s that kind of community theater that is entertaining but shows off our hometown talent.”

The Wellington Amphitheater is located at 12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd. For more info., call (561) 7532484 or visit www.wellingtonfl.gov.

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Hand Count: The Paper Ballots Are There Just For This Purpose Just when the two sides in Wellington’s bitterly fought March 13 election were starting to put aside their differences and move on, a “glitch” in the programming of the equipment used by the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office upended the results announced last week. Winners became losers and losers became winners. The healing that had begun? Open wounds yet again.

Thanks to the Supervisor of Elections Office, Wellington’s government now has a very serious legitimacy problem. Given how the current elections results came about, a significant portion of the population will not accept the outcome unless extraordinary means are used to prove that the latest count is the correct count. There needs to be another step here, and luckily, we have paper ballots for this very reason.

Given the statements of election officials, we’re relatively certain the most recent set of counts declaring Bob Margolis, Matt Willhite and John Greene the winners is accurate. However, to some on the losing side, this week’s results have just swapped one machine count for another. Wellington cannot take four years of a significant minority continually questioning the legitimacy of its elected officials. What is needed is a hand count of the ballots by an unbiased, outside observer. Doing so would instill confidence in the council that is about to be seated, giving it legitimacy to govern the village. Without that, this election will be brought up every time the council does something even remotely controversial over the next four years.

The problem is voter trust. After news broke Monday that the initial results were incorrect, it wasn’t long before conspiracy theories began circulating. And unless this is resolved proper-

ly, those theories — or at the very least, the ongoing doubt in the minds of some Wellington voters — will linger on. Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher has said this is the first time an error of this type has occurred, but no one has provided an acceptable explanation of exactly how the error occurred.

The question is how to get to the necessary hand recount. Bucher and attorneys have noted that in most circumstances, only a judge can order such a hand recount, most likely at the request of one of the candidates or of a Wellington voter who feels mistreated. We encourage a judge with the necessary authority to intervene and order such a count. While the TownCrier has no desire to delay the seating of duly elected officials, the Wellington Village Council’s mandate to govern must take precedence. Dueling vote counts, two vote certifications and varying legal interpretations do not bode well for the election process.

This entire situation feeds into the feeling that government exists not in the sunshine but in backroom deals made behind closed doors. It’s hard enough to get people to take part in municipal elections under normal circumstances, and when there’s no trust in the voting process, voter turnout will surely suffer. We would recommend a hand recount for any election with questionable results. But given Palm Beach County’s history and reputation, this goes beyond a mere recommendation — it is a necessity. Until residents of Palm Beach County can feel that their votes count, they will continue to distrust the entire process. And that is a very bad thing for democracy.

The ballots are there. Look at them and count them.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Jacobs: Election Was A Call For Preservation Much will be written about the historic election that took place March 13 in Wellington. Especially now as we have found out that Matt Willhite and John Greene were also elected in addition to new Mayor Bob Margolis. Congratulations to all of the candidates.

During this election, much was said about why our family chose to get involved. We love Wellington. It is our home, and we care greatly about protecting it. It is a special place, a place like no other, and we must stand united to ensure that its special character continues to be protected for future generations.

While our family has always supported this community philanthropically and civically, several months ago we were asked to help this community by making sure the voices of all residents were heard.

We are proud that we had the financial resources to help tell an important story and are also pleased to have played a role in affecting much-needed change in the recent election.

In addition to the technical error in declaring the wrong winners in two seats, this election was historic for other reasons as well.

First, a record turnout of voters cast their votes for a more open and transparent government.

Make no mistake, this was not about one individual. This was an entire community saying that it wants its voice to be heard. Second, the election clearly showed that the majority of voters are not in favor of the proposed massive commercial development in the Equestrian Preserve. As we have said, this is one of the largest developments in Wellington’s history. It deserves an extremely thorough investigation. What does this mean for traffic? How will this impact our water issues? Should commercial development be allowed in a park, golf course or preserve? Do we need a high-rise condo? These are all very important questions and, unfortunately, the due diligence has not been done.

Communities need green space. They need parks and open space. We all know that once massive commercial developments are built, they very rarely get taken down. Three years ago, Wellington developed a comprehensive plan. In that plan there are very specific rules about what is acceptable and what isn’t. The bulk of the plan highlights the importance of open space and the rural, equestrian and agriculture nature of the preserve. The members of the community we have heard from, numbering in the thousands, simply want to maintain what the village put into place. As a community, we need a diligent set of eyes to ensure that changes to master

plans, zoning and traffic are carefully analyzed and scrutinized.

The polls clearly showed that this was a decisive issue and one that the majority of the community is against. The election exposed the elitist view of the mayor and chamber of commerce, whose interests are tied directly to the developer, that they are the decision makers, not the residents of this community. We stand for one thing and that is an open process where the community decides what’s best for it.

While the commercial developers of this project, who stand to make millions of dollars in profits at the expense of the community, are pointing their fingers at the voters and saying your vote and opinion do not matter, we think they are wrong. The residents of Wellington spoke out by casting their vote. Their voices need to be heard. As the new elected officials take office, we are optimistic that a fresh set of eyes and ears will prevail. The candidates who have been elected have an obligation to protect and preserve Wellington for all of its residents. They have the obligation to ensure that issues that could affect the entire community are fully vetted, and that the back room deals that were made in the past do not happen again.

Our new officials have a big decision in front of them — perhaps one of the biggest in Wellington’s history in terms of unprecedented commercial development. I am confident that they will all give it the time and attention it deserves.

It’s our collective community, and our voices have been heard.

Lou Jacobs Deeridge Farms Wellington

Petition Carriers Should Stop Harassing Us How many times has a volunteer for the equestrian petition visited your home? Over the past four weeks, five people representing the equestrian petition have come to my home urging me to sign their petition. Five times we have told them no, that we do not agree with what they are advocating. But they will not take no for an answer.

This group has continued to badger the residents in our community who do not agree with them. What happened to our rights? This group is harassing citizens who do not agree with them.

One of their major points expressed by this group is that the Wellington Village Council cannot pass any items unless there is a “unanimous yes” vote. This group wants to take away the rights of individuals to make decisions based on their convictions. The Constitution of the United States provides us with the freedom of choice but this group does not

want that. This petition would basically put Wellington under a “dictatorship.” Merriam-Webster defines “dictatorship” as a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small clique.

It is time for the non-equestrian community to make their voices heard. Let the council know that they represent the people of Wellington, not just the equestrian community. The council needs to be accountable to all of the residents, not just those who can pour thousands of dollars into their campaign.

Kathy Stone Wellington

Listen To The Residents Over the yelling of special interests on all sides, the residents of Wellington have had the last and loudest word, and they are to be commended. No matter whom they voted for or which side of an issue they fall, they got engaged, and when the polls opened, they took time out of their busy lives to cast their vote. In record numbers they got involved in their community, and we should listen to what they said.

I think it is insulting to infer that anyone who voted cast their vote based on the single influence of one side. I think the residents of Wellington heard the arguments on all the issues, the pro-development business interest and the preservation-minded residents. It’s a small town, and the well-funded political committees on both sides easily got their side of the argument out into the public conscience.

On Election Day, the residents made their decision. Over 5,000 people voted in this election, and the majority in all three races voted to preserve what makes Wellington unique. It is not good versus evil or right versus wrong. In the end, all that matters is that the residents of Wellington took the time to get involved and have spoken with their vote. All we need to do now is start listening and install the candidates they elected.

Mat Forrest, Executive Director Wellington Equestrian Preservation Alliance

Election A Win For Wellington The recounting of the votes of the Wellington election, and its revelation that Bob Margolis, Matt Willhite and John Greene won, accurately reflects the fact that voters were disenchanted with Mayor Darell Bowen and the two persons he and his special interest developer were supporting and financing.

Defeating an incumbent is usually a very difficult thing to do, but an experienced, honest Bob Margolis did just that. Matt Willhite won handily because the voters

recognized that he was very knowledgeable, dedicated and constantly voted his conscience based on what he felt was best for the community. John Greene, a relative newcomer to our community compared to the others seeking election, was perceived to be honest, intelligent, articulate and objective in his considering what is best for our community.

Hopefully, once they are certified and sworn into office, the bitter political controversy that seems endemic to Wellington will subside, and our representatives can peacefully go about the business of governance they were mandated to do.

This election was extremely important. I believe we can now all work together to protect our quality of life, enjoy a new transparency in government and the elimination of special interest growth, which would have impacted our environment, added traffic congestion, increase governmental costs and decreased our home values.

The results of this unprecedented election is an affirmation that we the citizen voters of Wellington who seek what is best from our elected officials can no longer remain uninterested, distant or detached from what is going on in our town. Complacently “going with the flow” is not the answer.

Being active and participating in our government is.

Carmen Paterniti Wellington

Seat The Properly Elected Council By definition, to certify means “to declare something true and accurate by formal statement.” The certification that was issued for the Wellington council election may have been issued, but it was certifying something that was not true or accurate. It is incumbent upon the election officials to immediately void the current and existing certification and immediately certify the correct and authenticate re-counted votes.

The people of Wellington have spoken, and regardless of the previous error, the will of the voters must prevail. It is not the vote count that is in question but more the way the votes were handled by the machines and their tabulations. The faulty machines or their programming should not hold up the corrected results and the accurate certification of the true winners, Matt Willhite and John Greene. Even the Wellington Canvassing Board members, Anne Gerwig and Carmine Priore, stated that the citizens of Wellington have voted for Willhite and Greene and any technical errors should not hold up their swearing in to office.

In the best interests of the Village of Wellington, Shauna Hostetler and Al Paglia ran a clean and honest race and should be commented for their efforts. How-

ever, they should concede and allow the actual winners to be sworn in and take their rightful council seats on March 27.

Michael Whitlow Wellington

Thanks To ITID For Assistance I would like to extend my thanks and compliments to the Indian Trail Improvement District for their professionalism and expertise in resolving a street drainage issue on 69th Street North.

Recently I had one of the unfortunate examples of the types of disputes that arise between neighbors who share a public street. The issue involved the storm runoff from their long paved driveway and the resulting pooling on the street directly in front of their driveway and extending east to Avocado.

This created an obstacle course of potholes and overall slop after any intense rain storm.

After I first asked my neighbor three times to correct this problem before we enter another rainy season, I was finally told by the homeowner’s wife in no uncertain terms that if the problem bothered me so much to “take it up with Indian Trail.”

So I did. I asked ITID to inspect the problem and decide on a solution. Which leads to my thanks to ITID and especially Shaun for their cool response and diplomatic problem-solving expertise in the face of my neighbor’s agitated reaction to ITID’s investigation.

ITID discovered a collapsed culvert pipe (a clear code violation), which compromised the entire down slope of ITID’s drainage system extending east of the problem driveway to Avocado and west to the cross canal, and exposing a problem needing to be fixed before hurricane season. The “no-choice” solution requiring the owner to replace the damaged culvert pipe per code and re-grading the driveway with the required “crown,” plus ITID’s own contribution of a couple loads of strategically dumped shell rock on 69th Street North will provide a badly needed fix.

Neighbors don’t like forcing issues that involve other neighbors paying the cost of fixing problems that spillover onto public property. But neither do we like to pay the cost of front-end alignments,

tire damage or dealing with the slop of an obvious problem that needed fixing. So again, a voice of thanks to ITID for their prompt and professional response under lessthan-ideal circumstances. And hopefully the homeowner will make the required repairs without further delay.

Richard DuCharme The Acreage

Independence Vs. Lawsuit Perhaps the greatest document ever written is the Declaration of Independence. That is what we have been fighting for since the grand jury proposed an “independent inspector general,” and here we are once again fighting for independence.

We have fought from day one to leave the county commissioners out of this process, so we can truly have an independent inspector general; but along the way, the road has been littered with ideas to curtail her independence.

This latest plan to exempt 46 different types of contracts from the proposed payment system is the worst idea to date.

What are you doing trying to pick winners and losers? Who is worthy of a deal and who is not?

You will have stated who you get along with and who you could care less about.

This cannot stand! We need an independent inspector general.

How can she investigate the cherished 46 you deem worthy of an exemption? You can’t and you shouldn’t even think along those lines. You open yourselves up to scrutiny in the worst way.

There is only one way, equality for all, not just for the chosen few.

In reality, if you adopt this concept, you are putting the entire fiscal burden on the remaining contracts, because your mandate lets you increase the percentage of the contractors fees to any percentage you want, in order to properly fund the inspector general.

Wellington’s mayor just lost an election for opposing the inspector general. Will you ever hear the 72 percent of the voters? Get this issue over with, and give us the independent inspector general we voted for.

Morley Alperstein Wellington

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OPINION

American Jobs Aren’t Just Going Overseas... Now They’re Going To Jail!

After reading a recent article with some measure of incredulity, I asked the next 20 people I saw, “Did know that the federal government is involved in a longtime business using prisoners to make products that compete with private industry?” Nineteen replied, “What, are you kidding?” The 20th had read the same article as I, and

Footloose and...

By Jules W. Rabin was just as astonished.

Meet Federal Prison Industries

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TIME FOR PHOTOS: EASTER BUNNY ARRIVES AT THE MALL AT WELLINGTON GREEN

The Easter Bunny arrived at the Mall at Wellington Green on Saturday, March 17, and members of the MallStars Kids Club were given the exclusive opportunity to celebrate. Children and families enjoyed arts and crafts, balloon animals, a free breakfast and live entertainment featuring Alvin and the Chipmunks. Children then were invited to have their photos taken with the Easter Bunny, who will be available for pictures through April 7. For more info., visit www.shopwellingtongreen.com.

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Mikayla and Leonardo Lipson sit on the Easter Bunny’s lap.

Alvin and the Chipmunks lead children in a dance number.

The Easter Bunny arrives at the mall.

Estee and Kennedy Ramsarran and Anna Ortisi show off their spring crafts.

The Easter Bunny poses with Stephanie Ingersol (above) and Gianna Garcia (below).

CHILDREN TURN OUT FOR 10 & UNDER PLAY DAY AT WELLINGTON TENNIS CENTER The Wellington Tennis Center hosted a 10 & Under Tennis Play Day on Tuesday, March 13. The event gave young children the opportunity to come out and play tennis, and for f amilies to learn about the 10 & Under Tennis Program offered in Wellington. For more info., contact Debbie Ellsworth at ellsworth@florida.usta.com.

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Isabella Valencia keeps her eye on the ball.

Megan Sorensen lines up her serve.

Hayden Klingensmith gets under the ball.

Bryce Shackelford takes his swing.

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CRIME NEWS

Woman Robbed In Royal Palm Beach

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report MARCH 16 — A woman was robbed last Friday afternoon outside the former Albertsons grocery store on Southern Blvd. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office report, at approximately 3:15 p.m., the victim was walking eastbound in front of the store when an unknown Hispanic male approached her. According to the report, the victim said that the man came within arms-length, said “hello” and then snatched her purse off her left shoulder. The victim said the man fled eastbound toward Crestwood Blvd. According to the report, the victim’s purse contained $400 cash, a stethoscope and her driver’s license. The stolen items were valued at approximately $460. There was no further information available at the time of the report.

••• MARCH 15 — An employee of the Village of Royal Palm Beach called the PBSO last Thursday morning to report a business burglary. According to a PBSO report, at approximately 4:30 a.m., someone used a large decorative stone to bash open the glass front door of the Mess Hall at Veterans Park.

The perpetrator(s) stole several food items as well as about $30 cash. According to the report, the deputy observed that the hurricane-resistant glass on the door had been shattered with a large rock and that the perpetrator(s) had left blood on the shattered glass while trying to unlock the door. A nearby homeowner told the deputy that he was outside his home at approximately 4:30 a.m. when he heard loud noises that sounded like a shotgun, which he now believes was the sound of the door being shattered. The stolen items were valued at approximately $177.

DNA evidence was taken at the scene, but there were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

MARCH 15 — A resident of Sugar Pond Manor called the PBSO substation in Wellington last Thursday morning to report a vehicle burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 11 p.m. last Wednesday and 5:30 a.m. the following morning, someone entered two of the victim’s unlocked vehicles and stole a Rolex watch, a pair of sunglasses and a Walther pellet gun. The stolen items were valued at approximately $6,055. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

MARCH 16 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was dispatched to a home on 61st Street North last Friday morning regarding a theft.

According to a PBSO report, sometime between midnight last Wednesday and 9 a.m. last Friday, someone entered the victim’s home and stole three firearms. The weapons are described as a .223 Kel-Tec rifle, a Sig Sauer .45 ACP

pistol and a Taurus revolver. The stolen items were valued at approximately $2,000. There were no suspects at the time of the report.

MARCH 18 — A resident of Olympia called the PBSO substation in Wellington last Sunday morning to report a vehicle burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 11 p.m. last Saturday and 9 a.m. the following morning, someone entered the victim’s unlocked vehicle and stole his wallet from the center console.

It contained his driver’s license, credit cards and $130 cash. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

MARCH 18 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation responded to the corner of Orange and Apache boulevards last Sunday morning regarding an act of vandalism. According to a PBSO report, the victim parked his van on the corner at approximately 6 a.m. When he returned four hours later, he discovered that someone broke one of the windows, causing approximately $300 in damage. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

MARCH 18 — A resident of 62nd Road North contacted the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation last Sunday morning to report an act of vandalism. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 7 and 10:20 a.m., someone broke the driveway lamps of the victim’s home as well as the rear window of her van, causing approximately $600 in damage.

There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

MARCH 18 — A deputy from the PBSO substation in Wellington was dispatched to the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center last Sunday afternoon regarding a theft. According to a PBSO report, the victim put her purse containing her Louis Vuitton wallet inside a tack trunk at the show grounds. Sometime between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., someone entered the trunk and removed the wallet containing her driver ’s license, bank cards and about $2 cash. The stolen wallet was valued at approximately $800.

There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

MARCH 20 — A deputy from the PBSO substation in Royal Palm Beach responded to a home in Counterpoint Estates on Tuesday afternoon regarding a vehicle burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 10 a.m.

Monday and 2 p.m. Tuesday, someone entered the victim’s vehicle and stole $500 cash and a cell phone from the center console.

The victim said he last saw the items on Monday and only went to three places between then and Tuesday afternoon. According to the report, the victim said he may have left his passenger-side door unlocked. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.

Acreage Boy Dies After Collision With SUV MARCH 18 — A 12-year-old Acreage boy died last Sunday morning from injuries sustained when his bicycle was struck by an SUV. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office report, at approximately 6:23 a.m., Brandon Andrade was traveling westbound on his driveway, which intersects with Royal Palm Beach

Blvd. Meanwhile, the driver of the SUV was driving northbound on Royal Palm Beach Blvd. According to the report, Andrade “abruptly entered the roadway” in front of the SUV and was struck. Andrade was thrown from the bicycle into the road.

Andrade was flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.

Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County is asking for the public’s help in finding these wanted fugitives: • Michael Davis is a white male, 5’8” tall and weighing 155 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. His date of birth is 07/04/61.

Davis is wanted for failure to appear on a charge of battery on a law enforcement officer. His occupation is unknown. His last known address was River Bluff Lane in Royal Palm Beach. Davis is wanted as of 03/22/12.

• Raymond Rende is a white male, 6’7” tall and weighing 350 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. He has multiple tattoos.

His date of birth is 07/18/69. Rende is wanted for sale of a motor vehicle with an altered odometer and failure to appear on charges of title fraud (two counts), sale of a motor vehicle with an altered odometer, organized scheme to defraud and tampering with an odome ter. His occupation is unknown. His last known addresses were 159th Court North in Palm Beach Gardens and Royal Palm Beach Blvd. Rende is wanted as of 03/22/12.

Remain anonymous and you may be eligible for up to a $1,000 reward. Call Crime Stopper s at (800) 458-TIPS (8477) or visit www.crimestopperspbc.com.

Michael Davis

Raymond Rende

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Tour Gives County Commissioners A Roadside View Of The Acreage

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Members of the Palm Beach County Commission joined county administrators and staff on a fact-finding bus tour last week of the county’s rural areas west of State Road 7, including The Acreage and Loxahatchee Groves.

The tour was in anticipation of a county commission workshop Wednesday, March 28 to discuss issues involving the county’s different growth management tiers.

The tour had been requested by members of the commission to become more familiar with the exurban and rural tiers. The workshop March 28 will address the history, objectives and policies of the county’s comprehensive plan as it applies to those areas.

The tour began at the Vista Center on Jog Road and went west on Okeechobee Blvd., then south on State Road 7 to Southern Blvd. and west to 20-Mile Bend, the edge of the exurban and rural tiers.

The bus then headed back to Seminole Pratt Whitney Road and north past the Sluggett property at Southern Blvd. and Seminole Pratt, then west on 60th Street North to 180th Avenue North, east on Hamlin Blvd. back to Seminole Pratt and then north to the Mecca Farms property off Northlake for a tour stop.

The 1,400-acre Mecca site was purchased by the county and partially developed for biotech uses before the project was scrapped

and the Scripps Florida Research Institute was built in Jupiter instead. The Mecca property is now unused except for 750 acres that has been leased for farming and a water plant, according to Senior Planner Maria Bello.

The tour then proceeded back east on Northlake Blvd. to the possible future connection of State Road 7 east of the Ibis community. The tour went past several areas along Northlake that have been approved for commercial developments that have not been built yet.

The bus then headed south on Coconut Blvd. to Orange Blvd., east to Royal Palm Beach Blvd., east on Sunset Blvd. to 110th Avenue North, then south to Persimmon Blvd., where it cut across to the completed portion of the State Road 7 extension, back to Okeechobee Blvd., and then returned to the Vista Center.

Areas pointed out during the tour included the Sluggett property at Southern and Seminole Pratt, Lion Country Safari, CalleryJudge Grove, the GL Homes property, Mecca Farms and other areas in the pipeline for future development.

The tour also traversed several of the “T intersections” that will come under reconsideration for future commercial development at the March 28 meeting.

The bus tour was convened as a commission meeting with presentations by staff along the route.

Endangered sand hill cranes graze at the county’s Northern Region Operations Center of the Water Utilities Department located on the Mecca property.

Commissioner Burt Aaronson did not participate in the tour.

The workshop will revisit the Managed Growth Tier System adopted in 1999 to protect existing neighborhoods and communities, and to direct the location and timing of future development.

The tier system delineates five geographic areas: urban/suburban, rural, exurban, the Agricultural Reserve and the Glades.

“The route was planned to see as much as possible in the area based on the limitation of where the bus can go,” Planning & Zoning Director Barbara Alterman said. “The commissioners asked to do the tours to see it on the ground instead of on maps, and

provide a context for workshop discussion.”

Senior Planner Lisa Amara explained that the difference in the exurban and rural tier is that the exurban tier can be developed at one residential unit per 2.5 acres and the rural tier can be developed at one in 5 or one in 10 acres. Both of the tiers allow low-density commercial development, Amara said, explaining that most of the tour was in the Indian Trail Improvement District.

“About 60 percent of this area is subdivided,” she said. “That’s about 28,800 acres. Eighty percent of the units within the subdivided area are built today. That accounts for about 14,000 dwelling units,

County Planner Maria Bello narrates as riders travel west on 60th Street North to 180th Avenue North.

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and about 40,000 people call this area home.”

By 2030, the population is anticipated to be about 62,000, with almost 21,000 units.

Most of the designations in the tier were approved before 1989, Bello said.

The commission and county staff worked on the Sector Plan for several years and approved it in 2007 for transmission to the Department of Community Affairs, which no longer exists and has been replaced by the Department of Economic Opportunity.

The DCA found the Sector Plan not in compliance after several challenges from residents. “It forced us into a hearing or settle-

ment, but we were unable to resolve it because of the parties involved,” Alterman told the TownCrier, explaining that different people did not like different parts of the plan.

Eventually the Sector Plan was rescinded.

Alterman said that the trigger leading to the bus tour and workshop was a request by the owners of the Sluggett property to allow a big-box store at the intersection of Southern Blvd. and Seminole Pratt.

That request led commissioners to seek a review of the tier system.

“We’re doing all of them so we can have a better grasp of the comp plan,” Alterman said.

Economic Council Chairman Nat Roberts Explains The ‘Six Pillars’

By Ron Bukley Town-Crier Staff Report Economic Council of Palm Beach County Chairman Nat Roberts was the guest speaker at Monday’s Central Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce luncheon held at Breakers West Country Club.

Roberts’ topic was the Florida Chamber Foundation’s Six Pillars Community Strategic Plan, which has been adopted by the Economic Council.

The Six Pillars concept is a qualitative research program developing the first statewide strategic plan to help guide Florida toward a secure future economy. It put the focus on “six pillars,” defined as critical factors determining Florida’s economic future.

Those pillars are: talent supply and education; innovation and economic development; infrastructure and growth leadership; business climate and competitiveness; civic and governance systems; and quality of life and quality places.

Roberts, also a chamber trustee and CEO of Callery-Judge Grove, explained how the Economic Council was founded more than 30 years ago by a group of large business owners in an effort to

Nat Roberts, chairman of the Palm Beach County Economics Council, addresses chamber members.

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promote a healthy business climate.

Roberts said the Economic Council has worked with a wide variety of industries in the area to promote a healthy commercial environment. One of the more recent initiatives has been to expand and renovate schools.

“At the same time we were trying to attract Scripps and Max Planck to the area, we supported the [school] sales tax program that went through,” he said. “The com-

munity built and renovated a large number of schools. That was a great accomplishment. Every dollar was spent, the schools were built. The sales tax went out of business, so we consider that as a success.”

Today, the Economic Council is working on a countywide strategic plan to create an environment that businesses can flourish in, making sure that one of the geographically largest counties in America is destined to grow, he said. “This county has a vast degree of diversity and breadth,” Roberts said.

By 2030, the state will have 5 to 7 million more people, he said. If not managed properly, “it can fill our environment, it can choke our roads, it can drown our schools,” he said.

Roberts added that the planning that was done in the 1960s through the 1980s must be modified to accommodate the anticipated growth of the next 20 years, and grow into a place that is prosperous, with high-paying jobs, healthy communities and global competitiveness.

“Palm Beach is a brand that resonates in Europe,” Roberts said.

“It resonates in Asia, and it resonates all through America. How do

we bring prosperity and high-paying jobs, vibrant communities and keep ourselves competitive?

That’s a state goal, but it’s also something we try to organize our planning here around. That’s a fancy way of saying ‘our people.’Are our people learning? Are they competitive? Are they state-of-theart?”

A competitive environment that attracts enterprise must create an economic environment where business leaders feel comfortable to invest, Roberts said. That includes a healthy infrastructure with roads, clean drinking water, good schools and regulations that are friendly to business, he said.

“Somebody said to me: ‘I don’t care about statistics. All I care about is two things. How easy is it to start a company, and how easy it is to get a job? Those are the only two things that matter,’” he said.

Governing systems are also important. “The county has spent a lot of time on that issue in the last three years,” Roberts said. “It has to do with elections. It has to do with things like the Office of the Inspector General and the Commission on Ethics. I would argue that we are a leader in some of those things now.”

Quality of life, healthcare, environment and cultural resources are also important factors. “These are things that make the place wonderful when we’ve finished working, we’ve finished getting our kids to school, why we say to our friends, ‘This is a great place to be,’” he said.

The Six Pillars plan is organized by pillars because not everyone is interested in every component.

“If you have a greater interest in schools, we have you over here,” he said, pointing to a six-pillar model. “If you’re more interested in cultural issues and quality of life, we have you over here.”

Nothing in a county as diverse as Palm Beach can be done by any one group, he said. The chamber has been working with many other groups attempting to formulate Palm Beach County’s version of the Six Pillar plan, which includes 220 steps toward a sound economic future for the county.

“I would suggest it’s a little like herding cats working your way through there and 500 volunteers,” he said, explaining that the organizers met for longer than a year to evaluate what this county thinks is important.

Roberts said that while the last couple of years have been diffi-

cult, his organization has moved forward with its planning. “Anytime you study this long with as many sub-points, it’ll put you to sleep, but we came up with something, and we are the first urban county in Florida to come out with a full Six Pillars Community Strategic Plan,” he said.

Roberts said the Florida Chamber Foundation has invested a large amount of money to be able to track the success of the statewide plan. “We all know it’s wonderful to say we’re going to improve education,” he said. “When you drill into it, you talk about improving math education.”

He mentioned the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program initiated recently at Royal Palm Beach High School as an example of programs that will be monitored for their success. Another program with Florida Power & Light leading the way has been initiated to retrain math teachers. “The Florida Chamber Foundation is working with the schools to be able to track the math results over the years so we can see how we’re doing,” he said.

More information about the Six Pillars Community Strategic Plan is available under “Reports” at www.economiccouncilpbc.org.

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continued from page 1 or all of three shifts each day. Children ages 10 to 14 are invited to volunteer with a parent or guardian, but there must be one adult supervisor for every two children under age 14. Students age 15 or older may volunteer if a parent signs a consent form.

Those wishing to volunteer can contact Community Projects Manager Kim Henghold at (561) 7914137 or via e-mail at khenghold@ wellingtonfl.gov. If you can’t volunteer but still want to get involved, pickets are being sold for $20 and can be inscribed.

Natasha Felice paints one of many sea creatures for the playground.

Councilwoman Anne Gerwig saws a piece of wood.

Keenen Burton and Odaisha Sider volunteered to help paint.

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Vendors Sought For LGES Carnival Loxahatchee Groves Elementary School is seeking vendors for its carnival Friday, May 18 from 4 to 9 p.m. on school grounds (16020 Okeechobee Blvd., Loxahatchee Groves).

The event will provide fun for the whole family with no admission charge. There will be games, rides, a plant sale, local entertainment and lots of food. The silent auction will feature items and services from local businesses as well as themed classroom baskets.

Anyone who donates an item or a service will be recognized in the carnival booklet and the monthly PTO newsletter. Silent auction donations must be made by May 14. All donations are tax deductible.

Tickets for rides and games can be purchased before the carnival at a discount. Tickets will also be sold during the carnival. The cost for vendors is $25 per space. Bring your own table, tent, chairs, etc.

No electricity will be available, but you can bring a generator.

For more information on ticket sales, vendor applications, silent auction donations or to be one of

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NEWS BRIEFS the entertainers, call Candi at (561) 904-9200 or the PTO office at (561) 904-9238 (and leave a message if no one answers). Everyone is welcome to attend. All proceeds go directly to the children, teachers and school to provide resources and materials that are needed in the classroom.

Wellington Seeks Public Input For Federal Grant Wellington is eligible to receive approximately $229,000 per year in federal grant money beginning in 2013. But first, the village needs your input.

Wellington has posted the links to two surveys on its web site at www.wellingtonfl.gov required to obtain the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant. These surveys are designed to assess the housing needs of the community and fair housing choice within Wellington.

Resident input will be incorporated into an “Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice” as well as a five-year consolidated plan and an annual action plan,

ensuring that the research accurately portrays the housing and community development needs of Wellington. In an effort to increase access, the surveys are available in both English and Spanish.

To access the surveys, visit www.wellingtonfl.gov and click on the “Housing Needs Assessment Survey” icon in the Events section.

Grace Hoadley Dodge Award Nominations The YWCA of Palm Beach County has announced it is seeking nominations for its 2012 Grace Hoadley Dodge Award. The award is presented annually to a woman residing in Palm Beach County who has overcome adversity and in the process has not only empowered herself but also created opportunities for and led other women toward their own empowerment.

Information required on the application includes the nominee’s name, address, phone number and current occupation, as well as the adversity she has overcome, how she overcame it and how she has

helped empower others. The name and contact information about the person making the nomination is also needed.

The award will be presented at the YWCA’s 95th anniversary luncheon June 13 at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach.

Applications must be received by the YWCA no later than May 25 at: Grace Dodge Award Committee, YWCA of Palm Beach County, 2200 N. Florida Mango Road, Suite 102, West Palm Beach, FL 33409.

For more information about the 2012 Grace Hoadley Dodge Award, or to request an application, call the YWCA at (561) 640-0050, ext.

115.

For additional information about the YWCA of Palm Beach County, visit the association’s web site at www.ywca.org.

Groves Garden Club To Meet March 31 The Loxahatchee Groves Garden Club will meet Saturday, March 31 from 2 to 4 p.m. Everyone will meet at Palms West Presbyterian Church (13689 Okeecho-

bee Blvd.) and carpool to Excalibur Fruit Trees for a guided tour of the facility.

Club members are looking forward to this tour so they can learn more about the native tropical trees that contributed to the food sources consumed by the early settlers who came to Florida.

Contact Loxahatchee Groves Garden Club President Marge Herzog at (561) 791-9875 for more information.

ments in the volunteer and community sector.

To apply for the 2012 Junior League Scholarship, visit www. jlpb.org and download the 2012 scholarship application under the “About Us” section. The deadline to apply is April 9.

Junior League Scholarship Available

The Good Earth Farm will celebrate Earth Day with events for the entire family on Sunday, April 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the farm (2141 B Road, Loxahatchee Groves).

The zoo will be open for children and adults, featuring pony rides, petting zoo animals and hayrides. Hotdogs and snacks will be available all day. The gift shop and gallery will be open. Admission is $10 for children and $8 for adults; all proceeds feed the animals. Small plants will be available for children to take home and plant.

Good Earth Farm is looking for venders to set up a table to sell their Earth Day–oriented products at the farm. For more information, call Nancy at (561) 792-2666.

The Junior League of the Palm Beaches will offer a $2,000 scholarship to a young woman who will be graduating high school this year and will be attending college in the fall.

To be eligible, this young woman should be currently volunteering outside the school and be someone who has devoted a considerable amount of time to the needs of our community.

Each high school may submit no more than one candidate. Applicants will be evaluated based on accomplishments and achieve-

Celebrate Earth Day At Good Earth Farm

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WELLINGTON AMPHITHEATER HOSTS NEIL ZIRCONIA TRIBUTE TO NEIL DIAMOND Neil Zirconia, also known as Chuck LaPaglia, performed a Neil Diamond tribute concert Saturday, March 17 at the Wellington Amphitheater. A good-sized crowd stayed through the rain and were rewarded with all the popular Neil Diamond hits, to which they sang and danced along. SEE VIDEO FROM THIS EVENT AT WWW.GOTOWNCRIER.COM PHOTOS BY DENISE FLEISCHMAN/TOWN-CRIER

Warren Sparks played the spoons with Neil Zirconia.

Neil Zirconia (Chuck LaPaglia) and his wife Lori perform “America.”

Nick Colavido (front), Marcia Brewer, Steve Dolinsky and Paulette Colavido.

Loretta Katz, Sally Schwartz and Iris Goldson enjoy the concert.

The Benevides, Gormley, Dowling and Schlechting families.

Karissa and Karen Bernunzo with Munro.

WELLINGTON OFFERS JUNIOR LIFEGUARDING CLASSES AT AQUATICS COMPLEX Wellington held junior lifeguarding classes for ages 10-14 March 19-22 at the Wellington Aquatics Complex. Instructors covered the basics of lifeguarding rescue techniques, CPR and other ways to assist someone who needs help in the pool. Classes will resume for summer break. Call (561) 791-4770 or visit www.wellingtonfl.gov for more info.

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Instructor George Klein demonstrates the proper rescue technique on Grant Pignato.

Chase Washburn, Anthony Sanchez, Eric Burchill, Jordan Luongo, Grant Pignato and Anika Hynonen.

Chase Wasburn rescues Jordan Luongo.

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Don’t miss the USEF Selection Trials Saturday, March 24 6:00 PM

the Gallery (a South Beach-themed pavilion), the Tiki Hut (Polynesian beach bar), Tito's Tacos (Mexican food/margaritas).

Many public hospitality pavilions,

Free General Admission. Parking $20 per carload.

For reserved or premiere seating, fine dining options, or group sales (10-500 people), call or text Annette Goyette at 561.779.1660 or email annette@equestriansport.com WWW.EQUESTRIANSPORT.COM

561.793.5867

Palm Beach International Equestrian Center • Wellington, Florida

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ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH HOSTS ANNUAL ‘FEEDER PATTERN ART SHOWCASE’ Royal Palm Beach High School hosted its annual “Feeder Pattern Art Showcase” on Thursda y, Mar ch 15 in the school cafeteria. The exhibit featured artwork by RPBHS students as well as students from several area middle and elementary schools.

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Melissa Trompet and RPBHS ar t teacher Janet Stanton.

Cypress Trails Elementary School students Zoe and Nicholas Bumgardner.

RPBHS student Shelby Salomone was the National Silver Key winner of a scholastic art competition held in New York.

RPBHS senior Phillip Jarett with his artwork.

Miranda Boodheshwar of Crestwood Middle School.

Royal Palm Beach Elementary School students with art teacher Iris Norris.

GEM, JEWELRY & BEAD SHOW RETURNS TO THE SOUTH FLORIDA FAIRGROUNDS

The 2012 Gem, Jewelry & Bead Show was held Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18 at the South Florida Fairgrounds. Vendors showcased an array of jewelry and fascinating pieces from loose gems to rare stones. For more info., visit www.frankcoxproductions.com.

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Mary Werner and Rebecca McNairy of Melded Metal.

Wesley Brinkhurst looks at strands of beads from Glory Design.

Claire Poole and Stanley Stern of Treats for Soldiers.

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POLO & EQUESTRIAN

12 Cambiaso Goals Lift Valiente II Over Alegria In Gold Cup Action Rain clouds parted ways for a beautiful afternoon last Sunday at Piaget Field as the International Polo Club Palm Beach hosted the continued action of the 2012 USPA Piaget Gold Cup with a match-up between Valiente II and Alegria. Valiente II emerged victorious with a 15-6 win over Alegria.

Entertainment correspondent

Michael Yo hosted the match.

and comedian Michael Yo hosted the exciting match and kicked things off as the honorary coin toss participant, while Lizzie Sider, a student from Pine Crest School’s Boca Raton campus, sang the national anthem.

Valiente II’s Adolfo Cambiaso began the 4 p.m. featured match with the first goal of the afternoon less than a minute into the first chukker, setting the tone for his team. Alegria’s Tomas Gracia del Rio and Fred Mannix fought back, each scoring a single goal to take the lead 2-1.

After halftime, Valiente II rocked Alegria, scoring five goals in the fourth chukker alone, giving them an impressive 9-point lead. It was Valiente II’s team captain, Robert Jornayvaz, who brought the team home with the final Valiente II goal, earning them a 15-6 victory and a spot in the Piaget Gold Cup semifinals Thursday, March 22; the score was not available by press time.

In last Sunday’s match, Cambi-

Adolfo Cambiaso and Frank Stallone pose for photos. aso scored an impressive 12 goals for Valiente II. The International Polo Club Palm Beach has seven state-of-theart polo fields, a stunning newly renovated pavilion and a variety of entertainment, making it the

place to see and be seen every Sunday. Whether it’s enjoying a glass of champagne, the spectacular field-side brunch, or partaking in reserved lawn seating, Wellington Kids Zone or general admission seating, IPC has some-

Valiente II’s win propelled the team to the semifinals.

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thing to offer every level of spectator.

The 2012 USPAPiaget Gold Cup finals will take place on Sunday, March 25 at 4 p.m. with special guest Mario Lopez, host of Extra and America’s Best Dance Crew.

For tickets to the Piaget Gold Cup finals or season information, visit www.internationalpoloclub.com.

Find IPC on Facebook and Twitter or visit www.ipcscoreboard.com for up-to-date scores, schedules, rosters and more.

Michaels-Beerbaum Wins $32,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship The $32,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic was held under the lights last Saturday night at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center with a win for Germany’s Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and Cantano.

Twenty-six entries showed over a challenging course set by Michel Vaillancourt of Aiken, S.C., and the pair completed the only clear round for the win. With just one faultless round, no jump-off was necessary.

Michaels-Beerbaum and Cantano were the winners, and nine four-fault entries ranked in order of their times to follow.

Fellow German rider David Will and Giovanni 151, owned by Paul Schockemohle, had the fastest four fault round in 69.84 seconds to place second. Great Britain’s Ben Maher took third place honors riding Mrs. Emma Phillips’ Quiet Easy 4 to four faults in 69.91 seconds and also placed fourth with Miss Louise Flower’s Rowan with four faults in 71.71 seconds.

David McPherson put Great Britain in fifth place as well, earning four faults in 72.27 seconds with his own and Mr. & Mrs. Holtger’s Chamberlain Z. This was Michaels-Beerbaum’s

second 1.50m win during the WEF circuit, after also topping a class with her veteran partner Checkmate 4 during week five. Her ride last Saturday night, Cantano, is a newer mount with lots of potential.

“This is a relatively new horse for me and our first win, so it was quite a big deal. He was outstanding tonight,” Michaels-Beerbaum said.

Cantano, owned by Octavia Farms, is a 12-year-old Holsteiner stallion.

Michaels-Beerbaum has had a couple of firsts in her prestigious career during this year’s festival.

During week eight’s $75,000 FEI Nations Cup, presented by G&C Farm, she was the anchor rider for her German team and did not have to return in the second round after it was determined that the team could not be beat. The clear in last Saturday night’s class was her first time winning a classic with the only clear round and no jump-off.

Also showing in the International Arena last Saturday, it was a onetwo finish for Kira Kerkorian in the $1,500 Reist Industries Medium Junior Jumper speed class to begin the day. Kerkorian rode Ballypatrick Mystique to the win and finished second aboard Malcolm,

both horses owned by Lisa Kerkorian.

Charlotte Jacobs and Deeridge Farm’s Kachina then topped the $10,000 Griffis Group High Junior Jumper Classic. Jacobs and Kachina were the fastest of four double clears in a jump-off of eight competitors in the class, and they also came away with a $3,000 bonus for wearing SSG “Digital” gloves with the SSG horse head logo clearly visible.

Jacobs also took the fourth place honors with North Star’s Karonda V. Schl’Hof CH. Lillie Keenan and Abigail Wexner’s Zycarla Z were second; Lydia Ulrich and Up the Creek Farm’s Santos Utopia finished third.

The final class of the day session was the $15,000 SJHOF High Amateur-Owner Classic, which saw a win for Kelsey Thatcher and Pony Lane Farm’s Klotaire Du Moulin. The pair had the fastest of four clear rounds in a six-horse jump-off. Vanessa Mannix and Nirvana De Terlong finished second; Katie Dinan and Grant Road Partners’ Sandro were third.

Shawn Casady of Harriman, Tenn., continued his success in the Antares Large Junior 16-17 Hunter arena atop Blue Steel and Avalon, sweeping the division for

Shawn Casady and Blue Steel. second time this season. Casady and Blue Steel scored two firsts, a second and a third over fences to top the division with 30 points.

Reserve honors went to Casady’s second mount, Avalon, who finished second, second, third and fourth over fences and sixth under saddle, collecting 18.5 points total.

The winning mount, Blue Steel, is an 11-year-old Warmblood

Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum aboard Cantano.

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owned by Abigail McArdle of Barrington, Ill. The dapple gray gelding has had a successful season at WEF, earning two championship tricolors and three reserve tricolors to date.

Casady’s second mount, Avalon, is a 12-year-old Belgium Warmblood owned by Visse Wedell of North Salem, N.Y., and has been equally successful, collecting three championships

and two reserves thus far.

The Winter Equestrian Festival features 12 weeks of competition that conclude April 1. For full results, visit www.showgrounds live.com. The Palm Beach International Equestrian Center is located at 14440 Pierson Road in Wellington.

For more information, visit www. equestriansport.com or call (561) 793-5867.

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Children’s Author Discoveries At New Horizons Science Club Visits Panther Run Children’s author Diane Z. Shore visited Panther Run Elementary School on Friday, March 3.

Shore was in Wellington to do author presentations at five local elementary schools. Shore appeared on the morning news.

WPRE is Panther Run’s own TV station/studio. At that time she was presented with a copy of This is the School, written by Janice Harris’ class. The book was based on Diane Shore’s own book, titled This is the Game.

First-grade teacher Sherry Miller painted an author’s chair in honor of Shore’s visit. Shore autographed the chair as well as hundreds of copies of her own books for the students to take home.

Kindergarten through thirdgrade students were treated to a presentation titled “A Rockin

Author Diane Shore and teacher Sherry Miller. and A Readin,” and the fourthand fifth-graders were entertained with a presentation that focused on the elements of literature and a focus on poetry.

Panther Run students enjoy Diane Shore’s visit.

Each week, the New Horizons Elementary School Science Club, under the direction of fifth-grade teacher Roberta Thompson, meets to experience science through hands-on science explorations.

The SECME Club meets weekly under the direction of third-grade teacher Jennifer Schuler to perform science investigations and compete with other schools at the district level.

Each summer, students from area elementary schools gather for Camp Invention, a weeklong science adventure.

Under the direction of guidance counselor Lynne Bray, this summer’s program features Inventeureka, where campers venture on the Ci6000 space modulator time

machine for a fantasy adventure, building their own inventions and learning to adapt certain features for various situations; Magnetropolis, where participants spend their time navigating an island via recycled ships while learning the power of combining magnetism and electricity; I Can Invent: Balloon Burst, where campers invent fantastical machines and work in teams building inventions that burst balloons; and Action and Adventure Games, which scores a home run by combining physical activity, creativity, teamwork, cooperation and coordination while playing fun energetic games.

For more information about Camp Invention and to register, visit www.campinvention.org or call (800) 968-4332.

The Science Club with Pratt & Whitney mechanical-aeronautical engineer rocket scientist Tyler Jennings and Roberta Thompson.

Crestwood Dedicates New School Building Crestwood Middle School celebrated the dedication of its new building on Thursday, March 15.

The dedication coincided with the school’s 30th birthday.

Many area dignitaries were on hand to enjoy the dedication ceremony.

Among those in attendance at the event were Palm Beach County School Board Member Marcia Andrews, West Area Superintendent Dr. Matthew Shoemaker, Dr. Beverlyann Barton (Crestwood’s first principal), former Seminole Ridge High School Principal Dr. Lynn McGee and H.L. Johnson Elementary School Principal Sharon Hench.

Crestwood also invited retired teachers to take part in the celebration.

Royal Palm Beach Councilwom-

an Martha Webster and Councilman-elect Jeff Hmara joined in the festivities.

The construction teams from Royal Concrete Concepts, Tercilla Courtemanche Architects and Moss Construction attended the celebration.

Entertainment was provided by the Crestwood band, under the direction of Amanda Leonard, and the chorus and handbells, under the direction of Veronica Johnson.

A special video that showed the building progression was one of the final touches.

The Crestwood PTO presented Principal Dr. Stephanie Nance with a plaque expressing their gratitude. Closing remarks were given

by Nance and Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent E. Wayne Gent.

Principal Dr. Stephanie Nance and PTO President Rob Kreitzman.

Frontier Elementary School’s Science & Mathematics Fair A Success This year’s Frontier Elementary School Science and Mathematics Fair was a huge success. More than 400 science and math projects were displayed at Frontier’s Science and Mathematics Open House held March 8.

The school thanks all parents, family, friends and students who came out to see the amazing projects, as well as all of this year’s judges, the Seminole Ridge High School National Honor Society.

Principal Susan Groth, Assistant

Principal Laurie Wilt, and Science and Mathematics Fair Coordinator Molly Harding are proud of the hard work and effort displayed during this year’s fair.

The winning students will represent Frontier in the Palm Beach County Science and Mathematics Fair to be held May 8-10 at the South Florida Fairgrounds.

Pictured here are the mathematics winners (left) and science winners (right).

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Professional Engineers Speak To Seminole Ridge Science Students As part of the Florida Engineering Society’s educational outreach program, engineers made presentations to Advanced Placement and honors-level physics classes March 6 and 7.

Palm Beach County School District facilities engineer Jim Kunard, along with electrical engineer Shams Moghadam and retired engineer Joe McCreary of the district’s building department, shared with the Hawks their electrical engineering classroom instruction kit, which includes a hands-on rewiring of a functional circuit based on engineering plans. The trio’s visit also sparked a discussion on the generation and distribution of power, electrical safety measures and basic circuitry.

Kunard, a professional civil engineer with 30 years’ experience — ranging from power plant structures, high energy pipe stress analysis, and water management to parks, parking garages, fire-rescue

stations and libraries — is a past president of the Palm Beach chapter of the Florida Engineering Society and state chair of its education outreach initiatives.

• Hawk Artists Awarded Scholarships — In the recent Digital Media Arts College (DMAC) onsite drawing competition March 10 in Boca Raton, Hawk artist Samantha Blair was awarded a full DMAC scholarship. Blair took the top prize in a group of 20 finalists.

SRHS artist Jennifer Roberts, a runner-up in the drawing competition, was awarded a $4,500 DMAC scholarship.

• Dance Arts Honor Society Inducts Members — Seminole Ridge congratulates the inaugural group of inductees to the Seminole Ridge chapter of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts, inducted at the dance program’s spring show March 8-9. The inductees are VictoriaAdams, Kristina Baluch, Grethel Bot-Martinez,

Chelsea Diller, Jessica Dodd, Theresa Falci, Madison Fillingham, Emily Greenall, Gaby Hechavarria, Nicole Owens, Cristina Richards-Castillo, Julia Schriefer, Nicole Thibodeau and Chelsea Walker.

• Honor Society Spruces Up Campus — The SRHS National Honor Society, along with a number of other Hawks, has undertaken a campus beautification program of sprucing up the large quarter-circle islands and circular areas that dot the courtyard.

NHS members, along with SRHS athletes, took ownership of their courtyard, sponsor Shawna Ahmad said. More than 60 students took part in clearing out the first quarter-circle island, planting new ornamentals, and laying down a new bed of mulch.

In addition to the landscaping, NHS has donated a plaque in memory of “friends who will always remain in our hearts.”

“It’s a little memorial for all the lost students,” project co-chair Rosemary Murray said. “They were our inspiration for starting this beautification. We didn’t expect any real turnout until we saw how many people showed up, and there were so many.”

The memorial plaque will be placed in one of the large islands.

The project will continue later this spring, with several campus clubs and groups already committed to participate.

“We hope others will step up and not let it go,” Breanna Beardsley said. “If we can do it, anyone can.”

Plans include beautifying all the remaining courtyard planters. Seminole Ridge thanks the Art of Nature Garden Center on Northlake Blvd., the Quinntessence Nursery on Okeechobee Blvd., and the Murray family for their donations to campus beautification.

Electrical engineer Shams Moghadam with Seminole Ridge student Jeff Rizzo.

Osceola Creek Scholar-Athletes Of The Month

John James speaks to students at Berean Christian School.

Singer Shares Hope With Berean Students Students at Berean Christian School recently received a big g’day from a guest speaker from Australia. John James, founder and former lead singer of the Christian rock band Newsboys, spoke to the teens about taking opportunities in life.

James related parts of his life story to show how no matter what one’s background or past experiences are, one can overcome with God’s help. He reminded students of their worth in God’s eyes and of

the importance of viewing people through this lens of appreciation.

Through humor, stories and even interactive activities, the students were left thinking about their life choices and what they want the future to look like.

James also recently spoke at Project Hope, a local community concert to promote suicide awareness.

For more information about Berean Christian School’s special events, visit www.bereanwpb.org.

Osceola Creek Middle School has announced the recipients of its Scholar-Athlete Award for February.

The award is sponsored by the school police and honors varsity athletes who also excel in academics, effort, behavior and school spirit, and serve as role models for others. This month’s honorees carry high grade point averages as well as play varsity sports.

Boys basketball honored 13year-old Donnell Perry. “Donnell is a two-year starter at point guard for the basketball team,” coach Kai Lee said. “On the court he has shown excellent leadership by helping Osceola Creek set a school record for the most wins in school history. He plays tremendous team defense, makes clutch shots when the team needs them and always encourages his teammates to play hard when things get tough.”

In the classroom, Perry was the recipient of the prestigious Do the Write Thing Award and has been selected to the school’s honor roll each year. He is truly an example of the term “studentathlete.”

Perry has a 3.40 grade point average. Perry, an eighth-grader who also is on Osceola Creek’s track team, wants to attend Flor-

Scholar-Athletes — Osceola Creek Middle School Principal Dan Frank, Alysa Tabel, Julissa Valiente, Donnell Perry and School Police Officer Sandy Molenda. ida State University as a law major. He hopes to be a pro athlete or an attorney.

Twelve-year-old Alysa Tabel was honored by girls basketball.

“Alysa is a three-sport standout at Osceola Creek Middle School,” coach Tom Rulison said. “She is currently finishing up her second season as a starter on the girls basketball team.

She has led the team each year in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots, and is a team leader on the floor. Alysa also excels in the classroom, where she currently carries a 5.08 GPA.” Tabel, a seventh-grader, wants

to attend the University of Connecticut. She wants to play in the WNBA and also follow her father’s footsteps as a police officer. Tabel is also a member of Osceola Creek’s volleyball and softball teams.

Girls soccer honored 14-yearold Julissa Valiente.

“She is an outstanding young athlete that has been a leader on this team for three seasons,” coach Tony Bugeja said. “She has always played to her highest ability. She always has a smile and brings out the best in those around her. We are looking forward to her being success-

ful in high school and on to college.”

Valiente, an eighth-grader, carries a 5.17 grade point average.

She wants to attend the University of Florida, followed by a medical career either as a doctor or nurse. In addition to soccer, Valiente is also a member of the Drama Club.

Supporting the program are Subway, Domino’s Pizza and Burger King (located at Seminole Pratt Whitney Road and Orange Blvd.) and Dairy Queen (at Royal Palm Beach and Okeechobee boulevards), which donated free food coupons.

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Hanes Named Florida’s Ambassador To National Epilepsy Event Wellington resident John Hanes will find himself a little bit busier than your average high school senior this year.

Hanes, a student at Lake Worth High School enrolled in its Medical Science Academy, is this year’s Florida ambassador at the “Kids Speak Up!” event, which will take place April 1-3 in Washington, D.C. “Kids Speak Up!” is a national program sponsored by the Epilepsy Foundation. Hanes will represent the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida and be one of nearly 50 youth with epilepsy selected from across the country to petition congressional leaders for better access to care, improved public education and more research toward a cure for epilepsy.

“I am honored to serve as an ambassador for those with epilepsy here in Florida,” he said. “While epilepsy knows no boundaries, few states are as vulnerable to epilepsy as Florida, where 375,000 Floridians are affected by epilepsy.”

Statistically, epilepsy is most likely to affect children and seniors, both which constitute large percentages of the state’s population.

Hanes will be trained to become a national and local advocate on behalf of the nearly three million people with epilepsy in the United States. The three-day event includes training sessions and seminars that educate participants about epilepsy and help them de-

Valuntas Earns Re-Certification From Florida Bar Royal Palm Beach Councilman Richard Valuntas recently was recertified by the Florida Bar as a board-certified specialist in criminal appellate law.

Board certification recognizes attorneys’ special knowledge, skills and proficiency in various areas of law and professionalism and ethics in practice. There are more than 93,000 members of the Florida Bar, but only 57 members are board certified in criminal appellate law.

Certification is the highest level of evaluation by the Florida Bar of the competency and experience of attorneys in the 24 areas of law approved for certification by the Supreme Court of Florida.

Board certification is valid for five years, during which time the

Richard Valuntas attorney must continue to practice law and attend Florida Bar-approved continuing legal education courses. To be re-certified, lawyers must meet requirements similar to those for initial certification.

velop their public speaking skills.

“What an amazing opportunity, and I also get to sharpen my speaking skills,” said Hanes, vice president of the Lake Worth High School debate team, with which he will participate in the national debate tournament this year.

Hanes’ goal is to become a physician. While in high school, Hanes has already received invaluable training. He is a certified medical assistant and EKG technician, certified in basic life support and is HIV/AIDS and HIPPA compliant. Hanes is also an honor student preparing for two personal training certifications while active in numerous school organizations with several leadership roles.

He has a good foundation to be

an advocate for epilepsy.

As a “Kids Speak Up!” participant, Hanes has committed to a year of service as an active epilepsy advocate helping other kids and families to understand epilepsy and advocating for policies that support people with epilepsy. “I had my first seizure in the middle of an airport in a third-world country,” Hanes said. “I am grateful for the support my family, and I have received from the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida. And I want to give back to the community.”

The Epilepsy Foundation, a national nonprofit with affiliated organizations such as the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida (EFOF) throughout the United States, has led the fight against epilepsy since

1967. The organization’s goals are to ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; improve how people with epilepsy are perceived, accepted and valued in society; and promote research for a cure. With offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Daytona, Stuart, West Palm Beach, Jacksonville, Gainesville and Pensacola, the EFOF provides numerous services to individuals and families, such as advocacy and counseling, education and prevention, direct medical and neuropsychological services, as well as research and other programs regardless of financial situation or socioeconomic status.

For more information, visit www.epilepsyfla.org.

John Hanes

Marshall Foundation Hosts Sunset Safari New friends and seasoned supporters alike gathered Saturday, March 10 in support of the Everglades, as the 2012 Arthur R. Marshall Foundation Sunset Safari attracted more than 170 supporters.

It was held at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in western Palm Beach County.

Attendees had the opportunity to learn about the ecosystem with state-of-the-art interactive exhibits, guided nature walks, airboat and canoe tours, and enjoy music, refreshments, dinner, wine and good company.

The purpose of the Sunset Safari is to join new and existing supporters of the Marshall Foundation. “Our goal is to bring people to the refuge for the first time, to meet our donors and volunteers, and to become acquainted with this incredible Everglades area,” said Nancy Marshall, president of the Marshall Foundation.

The Loxahatchee Refuge is one of 556 national wildlife refuges under the management of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, but is only one of 14 named after an individual. The refuge is named after the late Art Marshall, the uncle of the founder of the Marshall Foundation.

The Sunset Safari also raised $10,000 for student education programs of the Marshall Foundation, which focus on the restoration and protection of the Everglades. This amount will essentially be doubled by a matching grant from the Batchelor Foundation.

Special thanks are given to Loxahatchee Canoeing Inc., Bedner’s Farm Fresh Market, Loxahatchee Everglades Tours Inc. and the South Florida Water Management District.

For more information, visit www. artmarshall.org, call (561) 233-9004 or e-mail info@artmarshall.com.

Nancy Marshall (second from left) greets visitors Emily DiMaggio, Cheryl Gowdy and Will Buckley at the Sunset Safari.

Davis Graduates From Army Infantry Training Army Pvt. Christopher Davis has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga. During the nine weeks of training, Davis received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core

values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics, and experiencing use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman.

Davis is the son of Rhonda Ferrin-Davis and Winston Davis of Loxahatchee Groves.

Monique McCall provides entertainment.

Sunset Safari visitors are treated to an airboat ride in the national refuge.

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Acreage Horseman’s Association Launches Paso Fino Show Series

By Jessica Gregoire Town-Crier Staff Report Known for their rich heritage and beauty, Paso Fino horses have a storied history dating back to Christopher Columbus. A comfortably gaited breed, Paso Finos can be traced to when Columbus brought 20 stallions and five broodmares to what is now the Dominican Republic.

organizer Patricia Morin. The circuit will continue in September with more shows and year-end awards.

Linda Rainbolt of the AHA assisted in organizing the event. “I just love horses and all the different disciplines,” she said.

Having a Paso Fino show will bring breeders and riders from all over Florida and beyond to The Acreage. “Bringing all these other disciplines together here creates a fun crowd,” Rainbolt said. “It’s all about bringing the community together.”

Paso Fino horses are a crossbreed of European breeds such as the Lipizzan and the Spanish Jennet. The horses were bred to endure the trough terrain of the New World and difficult voyages across the Atlantic.

There are many varieties of the Paso Fino horse, which are found throughout Latin American countries.

“Paso Finos come from all over Latin America,” Morin said. “Back then, these horses endured, and

were an essential part of Spanish colonialism.”

The new Paso Fino shows brings back that heritage to the community. It also offers an opportunity for participants to compete for awards.

“The money that goes into the show from our sponsors goes right back into the show,” Rainbolt said.

Additionally, it’s about getting the community involved and giving back.

“We will also be giving a donation to a cause,” Rainbolt said. “So the money and time sponsors and participants spend is going to a good cause.”

The Acreage Horseman’sAssociation is determined to make the Paso Fino horse show a regular event. “This is just the beginning and the ground floor of what we want to do with the show,” Rainbolt said.

More than 50 horses are participating in the inaugural show. “People have these horses, and they go to these big shows, but don’t

have a warm-up show, so we are trying to be their warm-up show, and award them at the same time,” she said.

Nicole Hornstein Equestrian

Park is located at 14780 Hamlin Blvd. in The Acreage. For more information, visit the AHA’s web site at www.acreagehorseman.com or call (561) 506-5212.

the original funding base.”

Tony Fransetta, a Wellington resident and president of the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, also spoke against the proposed settlement. “It has been said it’s not about money, and in a way it isn’t,” Fransetta said. “It’s about manipulating the money to control the result. They don’t want the end result of this to effectively bring about transparency.”

Fransetta asserted that the end result is to avoid scrutiny by the inspector general. “They’re doing their durndest, and I give them credit, they’re relentless, but when they’re doing something wrong and you don’t want to be caught, you’re going to be relentless,” he said. “You’re not going to give up, and you’re even going to lie when it’s convenient… This should

have been settled and settled rightfully a long time ago.”

Royal Palm Beach Mayor Matty Mattioli stressed that his village was not one of the municipalities in the lawsuit.

“Let the contractor pay this onequarter percent as what the people voted for,” Mattioli said. “I can’t see why it’s such a tremendous problem, having meeting after meeting after meeting. What are they afraid of?”

Wellington Mayor-Elect Bob Margolis, whose municipality is part of the lawsuit, spoke against the settlement. “It has been an interesting last couple of days, but I wanted to come here and voice my opposition to the request that’s before you today,” he said.

Margolis said that properly funding the inspector general was

a key part of his campaign. “When I campaigned for mayor, it didn’t just start a month ago or two months ago. It was a two-year campaign and the primary issue was the inspector general, because 72 percent of the residents in the Village of Wellington wanted the inspector general,” he said.

“Everything that was seen in the last two years was about diminishing her ability to do her job. I urge this commission to reject this offer. Let us get settled in the Village of Wellington and see what happens with the new council regarding this issue.”

League of Cities chief Radcliffe said that the lawsuit notwithstanding, all the cities are cooperating with the inspector general, but there are details to be worked through.

“We realize this process is going to be here and it’s going to be good,” he said. “It’s going to be the best in the nation. We’ve all embraced the system.”

Radcliffe stressed that the League of Cities is not against the inspector general. “We have embraced the system,” he said. “We are working hand-in-hand to make it a model for the country.”

Commissioner Burt Aaronson said he would not support the settlement proposal. “Why make something very difficult when it is really very easy? I would say to the 15 municipalities, ‘No way are we going to go ahead with your suggestion,’ and then let’s sit down at the table with all of them in front of us and go to work,” he said.

Santamaria said he decided to

run for the county commission in 2006 because he was ashamed when friends and relatives would come visit him and ask him why he lives in “Corruption County.”

“I was ashamed that my children and grandchildren were going to grow up in a corrupt environment, so I decided I was going to do everything I could to regain public trust,” Santamaria said, pointing out that Wellington is expected to drop out of the lawsuit. “We together, the 72 percent plus, the 26 cities and the seven of us, we can regain public trust by working with the inspector general.”

Commissioner Priscilla Taylor made a motion to reject the proposal, which was seconded by Commissioner Karen Marcus and carried unanimously.

is not unnecessarily escalated due to the cost to mitigate adverse impacts to water and environmental habitats.”

She added that the West Palm Beach Water Catchment Area provides potable water to 300,000 people. “Much of our economy is dependent on having this ready supply of this precious resource,” she said, noting that in February, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service wrote to FDOT that the extension would result in significant loss of fish and wildlife habitat and public conservation lands.

Muoio added that her residen-

cy in Ibis is not relevant to the issue. “Moving forward with this project is fiscally and environmentally irresponsible and puts our children’s future quality of life at great risk,” she said.

Indian Trail Improvement District President Michelle Damone thanked residents of the western communities for their strong showing. “Let me tell you what the conversation should be about,” Damone said. “It should be about fiscal responsibility. [The proposed route] is fiscally responsible and environmentally sensitive. This road is completely funded by the

state, and construction dollars are identified for 2014-15. This conversation should be about the health, safety and welfare of human life.

The road is not in the water catchment area. Emergency response time will [improve] and an evacuation route will now be in place. This conversation should be about the cost benefit of 40,000 residents of The Acreage that need road access for service and jobs.”

Damone also pointed out that when Ibis, River Walk, Andros Isle and Baywinds were built, West Palm Beach had committed to support the completion of not only the

SR 7 extension, but extensions of Roebuck and Jog roads as well, all of which the city has since reneged on. Damone added that the state’s Project Development & Environmental (PD&E) study acknowledged that there is not adequate road linkage running north and south for travel demands in the western communities.

Other public officials speaking in favor of the extension’s completion included Royal Palm Beach Mayor Matty Mattioli, Loxahatchee Groves Councilman Ron Jarriel, Loxahatchee Groves Mayor Dave Browning, Wellington

Councilwoman Anne Gerwig, Indian Trail Improvement District Supervisor Ralph Bair, Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District Supervisor John Ryan and Royal Palm Beach Councilwoman Martha Webster, who said she was confident the extension would be a “beautiful roadway,” based on the work that has been completed so far.

The proposed schedule for the project is to complete the design in November 2013 and begin construction in July 2014. More information about the project is available at www.sr7extension.com.

ered, a second set of randomly selected ballots was audited to confirm the discrepancy.

The problem was compounded by the fact that Bucher’s office had certified last week’s elections on Friday, March 16.

The board voted Monday evening to order a recount of the ballots by machine, despite protest from Village Attorney Jeff Kurtz, who thought the board might not have the authority to do so.

“Election statutes do not specifically address this issue,” he said, noting that the Supervisor of Elections cannot un-certify a certified election. “We are in an unfortunate situation. There does not seem to be authority for the Supervisor of Elections or the Canvassing Board to undo the certification.”

But Gerwig said that even if they can’t un-certify the election, she wanted to know the actual results.

“The certification is not my concern,” she said. “I want the data.”

Priore agreed. “Don’t tell me I can’t [order a recount] just because the law doesn’t say I can,” he said.

Kurtz worried that if the board did not have the authority to order the recount, it could be thrown out.

But board members felt it was part of the audit to investigate discrepancies.

The results came back showing that Willhite, Greene and Margolis were the winners.

Margolis said he was pleased with the results. “I’ve always said

that the mayor is just one vote,” he said. “Now we have to work on building a consensus and tackling some of the issues facing Wellington.”

Willhite said that he was happy to hear that voters felt he did a good job. “I felt that I did a lot of good work for the village,” he said.

“It was caught. No one has taken office yet.”

Greene said he was glad about the results but upset about the situation. “It’s unfortunate for everyone involved,” he said. “But I am glad that the process worked. The votes were counted, and we have put integrity back in the system.”

Bucher said that the error in the software, which has been in use since 2007, has never occurred in the State of Florida.

“When we inputted the election, we inputted the sequence,” she said. “Then in the background, the software is auto-generated. When we went to the auto-generated sequence, that was skewed.”

Bucher said she hoped people would understand it was a software error that was caught because of the process. She stressed that the process is in place to catch these errors.

“This in no way was a human error,” she said. “We do audits on every single election, and this is the first time that we’ve ever had a discrepancy.”

After the new results came in, a second audit was done. Gerwig pointed out, however, that the randomly selected ballots for the audit were from the exact same race and precinct.

After a long meeting Monday, the board reconvened Tuesday afternoon, after an audit report had been completed, to discuss their options.

Kurtz told the board Tuesday that he believes the election is officially certified when the Wellington Canvassing Board certifies it.

“When you look at certification statutes,” he said, “they don’t address who is to do a certification for a municipality.”

But, he said, Wellington’s charter states that the board “shall meet and publicly certify the vote.”

Priore asked about the certification of the incorrect election figures done Friday, March 16. Kurtz said he believed that was not a proper certification.

“Certification of the election is what the canvassing board does,” he said.

Additionally, Kurtz said he felt the post-certification audit was done prematurely.

Bucher said she believed it was her office that certifies results.

“Yesterday you were a rubberstamp ministerial board,” she said.

“Today you’re the board who certifies the election.”

Kurtz said his office looked at the statutes extensively and believed that because Bucher’s office is contracted by Wellington, they are not the certifying body.

Because there is no language covering this in the statutes, however, there was no definitive answer.

Bucher said that she can prepare the audit for next Tuesday’s meeting.

Gerwig requested that Bucher

do an audit from a random precinct in each of the three races to be sure that the second audit was correct.

“I would have much greater confidence if we were to audit each race,” she said.

Priore said he would like to see a full recount by hand to quell voter fears.

“Are these numbers correct?” he asked. “Are these machines correct? Can we ask for a full recount by hand?”

But Kurtz said that only a court could order a hand recount, meaning that an individual candidate or voter must bring a lawsuit.

Bucher noted that a hand recount is automatically allowed only if a race comes within less than one-half of 1 percent difference.

Priore said he was concerned.

“I don’t know that I have the authority to say the first result was incorrect,” he said. “I don’t see

that we have that authority.”

But Coates said he believed Kurtz was right. “I believe we are the certifier of our own election,” he said.

The board instructed Bucher to prepare an amendment to the audit report for the board to approve at a meeting to be held Tuesday, March 27 at 6 p.m. at the Wellington municipal complex.

Meanwhile, several Wellington residents filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Bucher and the Wellington Canvassing Board “on behalf of all Wellington voters to ensure the rightfully elected candidates take office and all votes are counted accurately and fairly,” according to a statement released on behalf of Michael Whitlow, Linda Smith Faver, Margaret Jacobs, Karen Lloyd, Kristine Szabo, Robert Sample and Kevin Burch. The statement noted that the plaintiffs all voted for Willhite and Greene on March 13.

that brought this to a head, and it’s now time to address this,” Hill said, adding that code enforcement had written 307 courtesy notices since 2010.

Of those, 97 went to violation and most of those people had resolved the situation. “Some have sought relief from the council by coming forward with their variation request,” Hill said. “We have been addressing them as we find them.”

Gaining full compliance villagewide could be a challenge, he said.

“If we write courtesy notices to those 500 people, I assure you that at least half of them will go ahead and trim their hedges down to compliance,” he said, noting that others would probably come in

and seek relief. “This is not a complaint-driven issue. Most of them are aesthetically pleasing. The ones that have gotten out of control and scraggly, most of them have been taken care of.”

Village Manager Ray Liggins said hedge height regulation has been a continual code enforcement issue. “Over the past few years, we have given some very visible variances to hedge height, specifically on Okeechobee Blvd. and Crestwood Blvd.,” Liggins said, explaining that many people who receive code violation notices ask why certain hedges are allowed to be taller and theirs is not.

“We get more and more of that, as there are more variances out there,” he said. “They’re starting

at six feet when they trim them, and they grow from there. There are some people who come in here that have eight- or nine-foot, very wellmaintained hedges. They feel offended that we would even consider writing up that particular hedge.”

Liggins said he thought that over 8 feet would be too high.

“Eight feet is the height of the eaves of the single-story homes,” he said. “We feel 8 feet could be enforced with no problem whatsoever.”

Hill said he would not recommend allowing more than 4 feet in the front areas except to conceal utility structures.

Councilwoman Martha Webster said that she had asked for a re-

view of the ordinance.

“I believe that 8 feet is not objectionable at all. I believe there are circumstances where residents would like that higher hedge. I think some of the variances [are OK], including neighbors that have a pool where a neighbor’s home is two stories,” she said. “I would like to see us look at 8 feet in back and 4 feet in front.”

Councilman Richard Valuntas also favored an 8-foot height in back. “That should hopefully eliminate any problem with people complying,” he said. “That should be strictly enforced and will give more direction to code enforcement.”

Vice Mayor Fred Pinto said he would agree to some type of

amendment. Councilman Jeff Hmara favored having a fresh look at the code. “I think it’s great when we are willing to look into our code when we begin to see a large number of variances; it seems to make sense,” Hmara said. “Eight feet is pretty high up there from a maintenance point of view. Is that going to be a problem? That’s pretty hard to trim.”

Hill said he thought 8 feet would be enforceable and that most of the hedges not in compliance are between 6 and 8 feet. “I believe a compromise of going to eight feet would eliminate most of that issue,” he said.

Webster made a motion to draft an ordinance for review, which carried unanimously.

The Acreage Horseman’sAssociation is keeping the rich history of the Paso Fino breed alive by conducting Paso Fino horse shows. The shows will be held at the Nicole Hornstein Equestrian Park in The Acreage on Sunday, April 8 and Sunday, May 13.

The new Paso Fino horse show circuit is the first of its kind in years in Palm Beach County, said event

Event organizers Patricia Morin and Linda Rainbolt.

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Offer Is Rejected

continued from page 1 nutty that we just sit here and nitpick this down.”

Wellington resident Morley Alperstein urged commissioners not to alter the funding base.

“We have fought from day one to truly have an independent inspector general, but along the way the road has been littered with ideas to curtail her independence,” Alperstein said. “This latest plan, to exempt 46 different types of contracts from the proposed payment system, is the worst idea yet.

You said you wanted an independent inspector general. You can prove it today by voting to keep

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continued from page 1 she said. “It should include the question why responsible government agencies support a road to nowhere costing the taxpayers two to three times more than it should. There are reasonable alternatives available to address the traffic considerations of every citizen that supports this road.

Those alternatives should be explored so that the cost of the road

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Headed To Court?

continued from page 1 ourselves in a position to be protected in case someone challenges us,” he said.

Paglia told the Town-Crier Wednesday that he would wait to see if the board certifies the new results Tuesday, but did not intend to file a lawsuit. “If the board certifies them, I will offer my congratulations,” he said.

Hostetler said she was hoping for a resolution. “I’d like to see a resolution for the good of the community,” she said.

Members of the Wellington Canvassing Board — consisting of Wellington Councilwoman Anne Gerwig, Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Carmine Priore, Councilman Howard Coates, Village Clerk Awilda Rodriguez and Supervisor of Elections Bucher — met Monday evening to discuss the matter.

Gerwig, Bucher and Rodriguez were auditing the election Monday afternoon when they discovered the discrepancy.

“The total number of votes cast were the same,” Gerwig told the Town-Crier, “but they weren’t the same numbers that were on the official certification.”

A post-election audit involves selecting ballots from a random race and precinct and hand-counting them, making sure they match the results on the computer cartridges.

When the problem was discov-

Hedges

Many Variances

continued from page 1 Capt. Paul Miles had expressed concerns about high hedges reducing deputies’ ability to monitor for security.

Mayor Matty Mattioli asked how the violations had been allowed to get to the level they are, and Hill said code enforcers had been focusing on other areas, including enforcement of hurricane shutter regulations, although they had been monitoring the hedge situation since 2010.

“It was because of the frequency of people asking for variations

Rider Danielle Reise aboard a Paso Fino horse.

PHOTOS BY JESSICA GREGOIRE/TOWN-CRIER

Members of the Wellington Canvassing Board meet with Village Attorney Jeff Kurtz Monday to hear the results of the recount.

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WELLINGTON CHAMBER HOSTS MEMBER MIXER AT GYPSY’S HORSE IRISH PUB The Wellington Chamber of Commerce held a mixer Thursda y, March 15 at the Gypsy’s Horse Irish Pub & Restaurant in the original Wellington Mall. Members enjoyed an afternoon of networking with food and drinks. For more info., visit www.wellingtonchamber.com.

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Scott Beaudoin, Jodi Goldberg and Kevin Wilkinson.

Alec Domb, Wellington Chamber Executive Director Michela Perillo-Green and Bob Salerno.

Bill Morosco, Kendall Dunn and Victor Connor.

Tyler Baker with Jeannie and Eric Heyman.

Mary Ellen Sheldon and Melody Domb.

Douglas and Veronica Garvey.

Barbara Nola and Hank Klein.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY THEME AT THIS MONTH’S ACREAGE COMMUNITY PARK JAM The Acreage Landowners’ Association and the Indian Trail Improvement District held their monthly Acreage Community Jam on Saturday, Mar ch 17 at Acreage Community Park. This month’s jam featured local entertainers, food from Holy Cow Subs and a classic car show by the Road Rats of Loxahatchee. For more info., visit www.acreagelandowners.org or call Bob Renna (561) 602-0676.

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Local band County Line Road performs.

Local entertainer and headline performer Bobby Jay.

Saxophonist David Kupsick gets ready to play.

Natasha Allen and her father Mike dress in festive St. Patrick’s Day attire.

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Posse Hosts Benefit Show March 25 At Jim Brandon

This Sunday, March 25, the Palm Beach County Mounted Posse is holding a March Madness Benefit & Fundraiser 5D Barrel Show at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center. The show benefits Kim Kinse y, who was recently diagnosed with thyr oid cancer.

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Wellington Baseball Bests Seminole Ridge 8-2

The Wellington High School varsity baseball team defeated Seminole Ridge High School 8-2 on Friday, March 16 at the Hawks’ Callery-Judge Stadium. Though the Hawks fought to hold back the Wolverines, they gave up hits that helped Wellington load the bases and bring in runners. Page 39

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Business Acreage Restaurateur Don Pascalli Satisfying The Community’s Appetite

Sitting at the table of one of his several successful restaurants, Don Pascalli remembers his humble beginnings in the restaurant industry as a 16-year-old boy from New Jer sey. Pascalli owns three popular hometown restaurants in The Acreage: Sneaky Pete’s Grill & Creamery, Kocomo’s Island Grill and Pascalli’s Italian Ristorante. All of the restaurants are operated

by Pascalli and his family, and they employ more than 90 people from the local community. Page 27

Sports RPBHS Softball Team Edged Out By American Heritage High School 9-2

Royal Palm Beach High School’s varsity softball team hosted American Heritage on Thursday, March 15, falling to the Stallions 9-2. After the first two innings, it appeared the Wildcats were headed for an upset over the Stallions. But a seven-run rally by American Heritage proved too much for the Wildcats. Page 39

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Don’t miss the USEF Selection Trials Saturday, March 24 6:00 PM

the Gallery (a South Beach-themed spectator pavilion), the Tiki Hut (Polynesian beach bar), Tito'sTacos (Mexican food/margaritas),

Many public hospitality pavilions,

Free General Admission. Parking $20 per carload.

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Posse Presents Benefit Show March 25 At Jim Brandon Here’s your chance to have fun with your horse while also helping out a member of our horse community. This Sunday, March 25, the Palm Beach County Mounted Posse is holding a March Madness Benefit & Fundraiser 5D Barrel Show at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center.

“This is the largest added money one-day show we’ve ever done,” Posse President Alyce Michelbrink said. “We started with $1,300. A frequent generous Posse supporter added another $500 for Youth 4D Barrels, really sweetening the pot for Youth riders, who normally never see more than $100 or $200. Then sponsors came forward on their own, adding another $500 to the Open Barrel Jackpot, increasing riders’ chances of winning by changing the Open event from 4D to 5D.” The Posse added $2,300. The Futurity 2D has $200 added, and the Open 3D Poles has $100 added. Sign-ups and exhibitions will run Sunday morning from 10 a.m. to noon, and the show will start at 12:30.

“This show is WPRA (Women’s Professional Rodeo Association)-approved for not only Open and Youth Barrels, but is also our first Futurity, for horses riding their first time for a time,” Michelbrink explained. “The WPRA is a great partner of Posse and has approved all of our special-event jackpot and Get updates all week long... follow Ellen Rosenberg on Twitter at twitter.com/ HorseTalkFL or stop by the Tales from the Trails page on Facebook and click “like.”

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By Ellen Rosenberg rodeo events. Their sanction brings more riders and riders from all over Florida, as WPRA members accumulate their points and yearend awards through their winnings and ride a yearly circuit. These are very talented ladies, seldom seen at local events. They will probably be riding in Ocala on Friday, March 23, Okeechobee on Saturday, March 24, and our show on Sunday!”

The show is also PBRA-approved. “That is a side-pot organization where members pay an additional entry fee at local shows and win additional jackpots through PBRA while winning jackpots at the show as well,” she noted.

The show benefits Kim Kinsey, a local mother living in Palm Beach Ranchettes whose daughter Sydni shows with Posse. Kinsey teaches high school biology and physics at the Wilson Academy, a small private school in Royal Palm Beach. While she loves her job, it unfortunately offers no benefits, including medical coverage.

“My doctor said it had been a while since I’d had a complete physical, so I had one this past January,” Kinsey said. “Quite by acci-

dent, they discovered I had thyroid cancer. I had surgery, and they removed my thyroid, and I have to go through radiation.

So far, she is doing fine.

“I’m even back at work. The prognosis is good, and I hope I continue to feel well.

I’m completely overwhelmed with how good people have been to me and my family. I feel blessed,” Kinsey said. “The whole horse world is a tight, wonderful group. Sydni’s been riding with Posse for many years, in the drill team and shows. I don’t ride. I pet the horses and feed them carrots. I can’t explain how much my family appreciates all the help and effort. It’s amazing.”

In addition to the show, there will also be a silent auction, bake sale, 50/50 raffle, fantasy barrel race raffle and T-shirt sales. All proceeds will go to Kinsey.

Sydni Kinsey with Wind Chime.

They’re looking for additional donated silent auction items, everything ed or not. People can also donate baked goods from equine products and services to gift cer- for the bake sale.

“These are wonderful people,” said Renee tificates, hay, feed, supplements and anything else people can think of, whether horse-relatSee ROSENBERG, page 26

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I’m All For The Environment, But I Want Bubbles And Shine!

As I mentioned last week, I am in Kansas City visiting my daughter, a former Wellingtonian gone bad. I say “gone bad” because when she left my care, she ate like a normal person. Now she is some sort of organic veganatarian thing. Yet how can I argue when she tells me she won’t eat the meat of animals that have been mistreated all their lives? When she tells me she supports nearby farmers by buying only locally grown produce? That she eschews products that have been trucked into town if there’s a comparable item available that didn’t need to gobble up gallons of valuable fuel to get to her? There’s little I can say.

I respect her approach, but, still, there’s nothing to eat in this house.

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The Sonic BOOMER Oh, sure, there’s a refrigerator full of sprouts grown in her backyard greenhouse and some cheese lovingly procured from happy goats. I think her husband, Greg, has three slices of bacon left from a pig that was allowed to roam free before ultimately being clunked on the head. But where are the four main food groups — hamburgers, fries, Coca-Cola and chocolate?

I’m here because she had been sick for one week and Greg for two, and I offered to clean up the place for them now that they both had

to return to work. A plane ticket was immediately e-mailed to me.

When I arrived, I managed to button my lip instead of lecturing them on how people need protein and fat and lots of sugar to survive. Instead, I tackled the dishes that had piled up while everyone was in quarantine. Every plate had dried sprouts stuck to it. But the only dish detergent I could find was stored in artfully clean-looking bottles made of recycled plastic. It promised to contain no harsh chemicals, do no harm to animals and benefit the soil once you washed it down the drain.

Of course it couldn’t clean anything.

I refilled the sink six times to do one batch of dishes. I need bubbles! How do I know it’s working if I can’t see a huge heap of bubbles?

Bubbles are nature’s way of telling you your detergent is working.

Things only got worse when I mopped the floor. There were two artfully clean-looking

bottles under the sink — one contained yellow stuff for washing tile and the other contained brown stuff for washing wood. I instinctively knew neither bottle was going to wash anything. Thank goodness I was supposed to mix them with water. Good ol’ water would do the job.

By the time Jen and Greg got home from work, the floors were clean but dull. I decided it was time to put my foot down. “I need Mop & Glo,” I said, planting my feet firmly on the spotless floor and folding my arms across my chest. “I’ve been working hard and I deserve it. I must have Mop & Glo!” I realized I sounded like a drug addict, but I didn’t care. I narrowed my eyes at them, and Jen calmly reached under the sink and pulled out the magical product. She had it. Maybe she was my daughter after all! Yet as I liberally applied it to the floor, I overhead Greg ask Jen, “You have Mop & Glo?” and Jen respond, in hushed tones, “I have a Mop & Glo bottle…”

‘21 Jump Street’ Makes Comedy Gold Out Of Old TV Show The new movie 21 Jump Street was a very pleasant surprise. It is a comedy, and it is really funny! Those two things often don’t go together anymore. Based on a popular TV series so old that it introduced Johnny Depp, this film goes off on a comedy tangent.

Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) are two almost totally useless cops. The first of the major gags is that Jenko, the popular jock, harassed Schmidt, the nerd, all through high school.

But they teamed up to get through the police academy and became friends.

Because of their ineptitude, they are sent to a special unit, located at you know where, so they can infiltrate the local schools to catch drug dealers. Of course, in the second gag, they are sent back to their own high school.

And to top it all off, their basic roles are switched. Jenko is supposed to be the nerd overachiever (despite not being able to recite the Miranda warning), and Schmidt winds up with the drama kids.

That proves to be an inspired bit of comedy. Watching Tatum trying to deal with nerds and to make it through Advanced Placement chemistry under the lecherous eye of Ms. Griggs is hilarious. And it would not have been funny watching Tatum dealing with beautiful

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continued from page 25 Kitching, who is in charge of the Posse’s barrel shows. “Kim had surgery in February, and it cost more than $30,000. Her daughter, Sydni, 17, goes to Wellington High School and has been a longtime Posse member. We’re just trying to help them out any way we can.”

“Barrel racers are known for their generosity and pitching in to help another barrel racing family,” Michelbrink said. “I know we’ll be able to count on our community and generous members to help out a family in need.”

For more information, call Renee Kitching at (561) 436-2909 or e-mail her at rakitching@ aol.com.

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By Leonard Wechsler young student Molly (Brie Larson) because it would have seemed like shooting fish in a barrel. On the other hand, Hill is hilarious as he tries to balance his nerd genes with the sensitivity that attracts the young women.

The villains are appropriately villainous.

Young Dave Franco (James Franco’s kid brother) is excellent as the bright but villainous school drug pusher, and the rest of the bad guys are a very funny mixed bag.

There’s a handful of surprises in the movie, and most of them are really good. The two cops have to live (as brothers) with Schmidt’s parents, and his mother tells half the world that he’s undercover. The head of the police

group, Capt. Dickson (Ice Cube), is bombastically funny. He does wonderful slow burns. I might add that the rest of the team spend most of their time busting the chops of our two heroes.

This is one of the few movies where the casting is basically perfect. Ellie Kemper is wonderful as Ms. Griggs, lusting after Tatum and blaming herself for her interest in a boy she thinks is far too young. Rob Riggle is very funny as a rather atypical gym teacher, screaming out that he thought it was the best prom night ever as a gun battle interrupted the festivities. Holly Robinson Peete makes a cameo appearance as does another performer from the original TV show, a far bigger star than anyone else in this movie. I hope everyone reading this figured that one out.

What really holds this movie together is the exceptionally good quality of the script.

Hill and Tatum make their relationship believable. An easy comedy would have made them enemies getting in each other’s way; this movie makes you believe they become good friends. Even when they are a bit sentimental

about it, the mechanics of the relationship work. The students shown are also more than simply stereotypes; they actually seem believable, something I have not seen in high school comedies in years.

But, best of all, there are dozens of gags.

And most of them work. The physical comedy works; watching them try to vomit up drugs they had taken was hysterical. A couple of chase scenes switched back and forth between action and comedy so well that it was hard to catch a breath.

In summary, this is a funny movie. We need more funny comedies, and I would love to see more of these from the people who put this out. I was very dubious when I heard the old series would become a movie and even more so when I learned it was going to be a comedy. But Hill and his coauthor Michael Bacall did things correctly. Any straightforward movie would have forced comparisons with the Johnny Depp original. This film essentially went its own way, and it is a funny way. I recommend it. We may not see a funnier comedy for a long time.

Mario Lopez To Host Coin Toss This Sunday At IPC Best known for his role as A.C. Slater on the hit ’90s TV series Saved by the Bell, Mario Lopez will join polo enthusiasts for the 2012 USPA Piaget Gold Cup final at the International Polo Club Palm Beach on Sunday, March 25. Lopez will officiate the coin toss.

Lopez is currently the host of the nationally syndicated entertainment show Extra, as well as the highly rated MTV program America’s Best Dance Crew. Additionally, Lopez is a New York Times best-selling author for his healthful eating guide, Extra Lean, and has penned a variety of other books, including a children’s book that he wrote for his daughter, Gia. For the fifth consecutive year, Piaget continues its support of polo at the esteemed

International Polo Club Palm Beach with the USPA Piaget Gold Cup. Introduced in 1974, this event is one of the most prestigious 26goal tournaments in the world and is a highlight of polo season.

The International Polo Club Palm Beach offers a variety of entertainment including the Pavilion’s champagne brunch, general admission ticketing and the Wellington Kids Zone. Sunday brunch and polo will take place from 3 to 6 p.m., with the coin toss with Lopez taking place at 4 p.m. The International Polo Club Palm Beach is located at 3667 120th Ave. South in Wellington.

For season information and tickets, visit www.internationalpoloclub.com or visit the new www.ipcscoreboard.com for up-to-date scores, schedules and rosters.

Mario Lopez

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Sneaky Pete’s Grill & Creamery head chef Sabrina Swope with owner Don Pascalli.

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Acreage Restaurateur Don Pascalli Satisfying The Community’s Appetite

By Jessica Gregoire The creamery side of Sneaky Pete’s also Town-Crier Staff Report offers a game room with arcade games and a Sitting at the table of one of his several pool table. “It’s a great place for kids to play successful restaurants, Don Pascalli remem- after they eat or grab an ice cream cone,” Pasbers his humble beginnings in the restaurant calli said. industry as a 16-year-old boy from New JerAs Sneaky Pete’s became more successful, sey. “It was when I first came to Florida, I got in a span of two years after its opening, Pasa job washing dishes,” he recalled. “I just fell calli opened Kocomo’s Island Grill and Pasinto it, and I’ve been at it ever since.” calli’s Italian Ristorante.

Pascalli owns three popular hometown resKocomo’s Island Grill has an island-style taurants in The Acreage: Sneaky Pete’s Grill vibe to it, with island-inspired decor such as & Creamery, Kocomo’s Island Grill and Pas- tropical paintings on the walls. Open for breakcalli’s Italian Ristorante. fast, lunch and dinner, some menu items rePascalli has been in the restaurant business flect the island style, with a variety of fresh for many years. “As a young man, I used to fish as well as steaks and chops. “It’s a little open up restaurants all over the world, in- more elegant but still a casual atmosphere,” cluding London,” he said. “And I’ve worked Pascalli said. “It’s for families also, but we have for the Darden Restaurant Group, which owns other events going on there.”

Red Lobster, the Olive Garden and Capital Kocomo’s Island Grill offers live entertainGrille.” ment on select nights and Karaoke night on As an experienced businessman and res- Fridays. taurateur, Pascalli used his knowledge to open Pascalli’s Italian Ristorante is a pizzeria and up his first restaurant. “I had a place in Royal Italian restaurant, located in the same plaza as Palm Beach for six years called the Hall of Kocomo’s. It has 70 seats for dine-in, but also Fame,” he said. “A lot of my customers from does a large take-out business. out here know me from there.”

All of the restaurants are operated by PasEleven years ago, Pascalli opened Sneaky calli and his family, and they employ more than Pete’s, his first restaurant in The Acreage. A 90 people from the local community. “There relaxed family-style restaurant with dine-in and really isn’t an industry out here employing take-out options, it is open for breakfast, lunch that many people at once,” Pascalli noted. and dinner. Menu items include ice cream, pizSneaky Pete’s Grill & Creamery is located at za, hot dogs, hamburgers and chicken wings. 5088 Seminole Pratt Whitney Road in the Grove “And we serve the kids meals on Frisbees,” Marketplace. For more info., call (561) 333Pascalli said.

1179.

There is a bar for people to watch sports Kocomo’s Island Grill (7040 Seminole Pratt games. “It’s more of a place where families Whitney Road) is in the Publix plaza in The can go to have good food and watch a game,” Acreage. For more info., call (561) 383-7550.

Pascalli said.

Pascalli’s Italian Ristorante (7070 Seminole The new creamery is located on the other Pratt Whitney Road) is also in the Publix plaside of restaurant and has 21 flavors of the Ice za. For more info., call (561) 383-7101.

Cream Club ice cream. “We have everything Information on all three restaurants can be from old-fashioned banana splits to ice cream found at www.sneakypetes.food.officelive. floats,” Pascalli said. com.

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Jewish Federation Names New CEO Marking a new era in its rich 50year history, the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County has appointed David Phillips as its new chief executive officer.

An innovative leader in the notfor-profit sector, Phillips was selected through a national search, spearheaded by a committee that included representatives from the federation’s donors, lay leadership and synagogue leadership donors, as well as other community stakeholders.

According to Jewish Federation President Mark Levy, Phillips stood out among numerous candidates with excellent qualifications because of his “out-of-the box” thinking and professional skill set, as well as his “rare mix of highly desirable personal qualities,” such as wisdom, strength, honesty, compassion and a true commitment to Jewish values.

“As we were preparing to celebrate our 50th year in 2012, we took a careful look at how we were going to move forward, retain and advance our relevance for future generations and ensure that our community continues to thrive,” Levy said. “In order to achieve these

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David Phillips goals, we recognized the need for a leader who can embrace change and experiment with new models, all while honoring our heritage and traditions of the past.”

Phillips, who officially assumed his new role March 12, has already spent a significant amount of time meeting with key federation leaders, staff and members of the Jewish community in Palm Beach County.

For more information about the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, visit www.jewishpalm beach.org.

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Wellington Chamber To Launch Small Business Roundtable

The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has announced the launch of its six-part series, the Small Business Roundtable.

This series was created to assist and educate independent business owners by offering tools and resources to enrich their business growth.

The newly formed Small Business Committee is co-chaired by Laura Jaffe of Jaffe Realty Group at Keller Williams and Donna Broder of Card Solutions Int’l. They developed the series with the goal of providing current and pertinent information to small businesses in a friendly, interactive, informative fashion utilizing speakers who are experts in their fields of business.

“We want to see businesses growing and prospering in the community,” Broder said.

Throughout the series, speakers and panelists will share their experiences and expertise, giving participants immediate information and guidelines they can utilize the moment they enter their place of business.

Kicking off the series is the “Strategic Alliance Workshop” on

Monday, March 26 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Binks Forest Golf Club in Wellington. The cost is $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers. Business owners will learn how to build relationships through networking and forming strategic alliances. This event will be an introduction to the Small Business Roundtable series.

The first regular session of the program on April 10 is titled “How to Walk Tall and Carry a Big Stick.”

Featured speakers are Kellie Kuecha, president of the WOMAN (Worthy of Massive Achievement Now) Club and mentor, author and speaker; Chris Heuwetter, president of Twilo PR; and Suzanne Kovi, speaker, author and TV host, and president of Ignite Your Life.

Blanca Greenstein, managing partner of the law firm Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock and Kennedy, will be the moderator. The session is focused on teaching attendees what is and how to create a personal brand, develop public relations, and how to present oneself in order to compete with larger companies.

The cost of the six-part series is $25 for chamber members and $50 for nonmembers; for nonmembers, the $50 fee will be credited toward their first year of chamber membership dues.

All attendees who sign up for the entire series are offered the opportunity to rent a virtual office at the Lake Wellington Professional Centre for $150 for the first six months. This is a special discounted rate that provides a personal receptionist to answer business calls and use of a conference room when available. The cost of a single session is $10.

Each of the six seminars will be held at Whole Foods Market on State Road 7 in Wellington. The sessions are scheduled for the second Tuesday of each month from 8 to 10 a.m.

Reservations are required. Registration for either the entire sixpart series or individual monthly sessions may be made at the Wellington Chamber web site at www. wellingtonchamber.com, by e-mailing smallbusinssroundtable@ wellingtonchamber.com or by calling the chamber at (561) 792-6525.

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Max Planck Foundation To Open New Research Facility The Max Planck Florida Foundation is ramping up its operations in anticipation of the summer 2012 opening of the Max Planck Florida Institute’s new 100,000-square-foot biomedical research facility on Florida Atlantic University’s MacArthur Campus in Jupiter.

Established in the fall of 2010, the foundation is tasked with raising funds to support the scientific mission, objectives and programs of MPFI, which is the sole U.S.-based institute of Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Society.

“Our first few years in South Florida have been truly remarkable. We have brought world-class scientists to the area, including our CEO and scientific director, Dr. David Fitzpatrick, and have established programs to enhance science education locally, such as the Brain Bee Challenge and the public lecture series,” said Dr. Claudia Hillinger, MPFI’s vice president of institute development and president of the foundation. “If we are to continue this momentum and propel our potentially world-changing research forward in

Binks Forest Golf Club Breaks Reservation Barrier The Binks Forest Golf Club in Wellington has announced that it is the first golf club in Palm Beach County to provide a 24-hour live tee time reservation service.

“Oftentimes golfers get together in the evening and decide to put a game together the next day, only to be discouraged waiting until morning to scramble and find available tee times,” Binks Forest General Manager Greg Schroeder said.

Golfers can make reservations 24 hours a day, seven days and week,

and speak to a real person, thereby getting the best available tee time at a reasonable price.

Golfers can still go online to make reservations, or use their smart phone via the Binks Forest Golf Club mobile web site, another new marketing tool recently introduced by the club.

For more information about the Binks Forest Golf Club, visit www. binksforestgc.com or contact Director of Marketing & Membership Bob Still at (561) 333-5731.

the coming decades, it’s vital that we continue to strengthen and expand the reach of the foundation.”

The foundation’s board of directors is chaired by George T. Elmore, founder and president of Hardrives Inc., who is also the first $1 million contributor to the capital campaign.

Patricia B. Lester, co-owner of a Florida-based private investment firm, serves as secretary; and Erik Joh, Esq. of Cypress Trust serves as treasurer. Additional members of the board of directors are Mark W. Cook of Royal Palm Management; Frank J. Folz III of Airspan Networks Inc.; Kenneth Kahn, president of LRP Publications; Michael V. Mitrione, Esq. of Gunster; and Gregory V. Novak of Novak Druce & Quigg LLP and HalberdCross Private Equity.

In 2011, the foundation created a steering committee specifically tasked with supporting a capital campaign. Although MPFI was established through generous funding from the State of Florida, Palm Beach County and the Town of Jupiter, after a 10-year period it will become dependent on philanthropy, grants and commercial activities in order to underwrite its annual operating budget in the future. The goal of the Frontiers Campaign is to build an initial endowment of $40

million that will serve as the foundation of the permanent endowment needed to ensure the institute’s future success, and raise an additional $10 million toward equipment for the new building.

The steering committee is chaired by board member Mark Cook and includes fellow board members Frank Folz, Michael Mitrione, Kenneth Kahn, as well as R.Adm. Phil Whitacre, Ray S. Celedinas, president and CEO of Celedinas Insurance Group, Michael J. Bracci of Northern Trust and Elizabeth Neuhoff.

“Our committee believes strongly in the work being done at the Max Planck Florida Institute,” Cook said.

“Researchers are using innovative technologies to explore the neural circuits in the brain at the level necessary to achieve major advancements in the understanding and treatment of neurological disorders.

Targeted disorders include Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, autism and schizophrenia.”

The Max Planck Florida Foundation has also launched a Friends Program that includes business and community leaders from around the state and beyond. They held their first event in January that included a tour of the new building in Jupiter.

George Elmore and Claudia Hillinger The foundation also recently announced a partnership with the Quantum Foundation to sponsor a series of private receptions in conjunction with the MPFI winter lecture series. The second season of the popular series is currently underway.

On Tuesday, March 27, Dr. Sami Solanki, director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, will discuss the mysteries of the sun.

For more information, visit www. mpffoundation.org.

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Academy for Child Enrichment — Spring Break Camp runs from March 19 through March 26.

Children will enjoy field trips and activities such as swimming, bowling, skating, science museum, movies and picnics. Tuition includes camera surveillance, creative curriculum, computers and all meals. Registration is being accepted for both Spring Break and Summer Camp. Registration is free for new customers only. Se habla Español. Visit the Academy for Child Enrichment at 700 Camellia Dr., Royal Palm Beach. For more info., call (561) 798-3458 or visit www.smallworldpbc.com.

Armory Art Center Summer Art Camp — The Armory Art Center is excited to bring a series of theme-based sessions to elementary school through high school aged children for this year’s summer camp. Experienced instructors have developed projects relating to the themes of each week. Activities are age-appropriate and focus on a child’s artistic and creative development. Students age 4.5 to 7 years old will rotate among several studio areas daily in ceramic sculpture, drawing, painting and other creative mediums. Teen workshops include wheel throwing, pho tography, drawing, sculpture, mixed-media, fashion illustration, printmaking, papermaking, glass fusing, collage and more! All art materials are included in the cost of tuition. The Armor y Art Cent er is located at 1700 Parker Ave., W est Palm Beach. For more info., visit www.armoryart.org or call (561) 832-1776.

Breakers West Summer Camp — Calling all campers for a summer of fun! Children ages 5 to 14 are invited to Breakers West for Summer Camp 2012. Enjoy wildlife demonstrations, science experiments, magic shows, arts & crafts, cooking classes, golf, tennis, basketball, daily swimming instruction and so much more! Camp runs June 11 through Aug .17 (excluding July 2-6), Monday through Friday from 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sessions are $300 per camper, per week, plus a one-time registration fee of $50, which includes a camp essentials bag.

Discounts are offered to families registering multiple children or for multiple sessions. Aftercare is available. To register for Breakers West Summer Camp, call (561) 653-6330.

Camp Cambridge — Camp Cambridge, serving age two through second grade, combines academic excellence, summertime fun and a safe environment to create an unforgettable summer experience. Theme-based curriculum and in-house field trips complement the concepts explored by all. Year-round, e xperienced staff continues to nur ture. There are nine weeks of camp offered at Cambridge Schools, located at 1920 Royal Fern Drive in Wellington.

Activities include: swimming, art, math, computers, sports, science and cooking. A certified swim instructor provides instruction to children ages 3 and up, Mommy & Me classes, private/group lessons and team swim programs. Bilingual classes, kindergarten readiness and enrichment classes available as well. For more info., visit www.cambridgepreschools.com.

Camp Gan Israel Day Camp — Camp Gan Israel has a program geared for your child! Understanding that all kids are unique and are drawn toward different activities, Camp Gan Israel offers something for everyone. There are professional sports instructors, baking experts, dance instruction, jewelry making, karate instruction, trips to exciting local venues, swimming, boating, scrapbooking, edible art and so much more. Camp Gan Israel runs from June 18 through July 20, Monda y through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The camp will take place at P alm Beach Central High School and accepts children from 3 to 13 years. For more information, or to register, visit www.wellingtonjewishcenter.org or call (561) 333-4663.

Casperey Stables Horse Camp — Casperey Stables is a small, fun-filled day camp for children ages 7 to 14. With four riding opportunities each day, arts & crafts and outdoor games, campers find little time to be bored. The low counselor-child ratio ensures your child will receive individual attention. There are camp sessions for spring and winter school breaks, and during the summer, each two-week session has a theme, such as Indian Days, Circus Days and Medieval Days. Casperey Stables has a weekly swim party and ends each session with a horse show and family BBQ. Call soon: this small, quality program f ills quickly! To learn more about the camp, located at 2330 D Road in Loxahatchee Groves, call (561) 792-4990 or visit www.caspereystables.com.

Dream Believer Stables Horse Camp — Dream Believer is devoted to education of horsemanship, encouraging a healthy relationship be tween horse and rider, to develop confidence whether you are a competitive rider or just wanting to enjoy the pleasure aspect of riding. The family atmosphere encourages strengthening knowledge through hands-on horse care. Learn every aspect of horse care from riding to bathing. At Dream Believer, your child will feel as if they have their own horse. The program accepts beginning level through advanced riders in the riding academy. Let them know what your goals are, and they will help you achieve them. The program is located at 16600 Hollo w Tree Dr., Wellington. For more info., call (56 1) 289-8515 or visit www.dreambelieverstables.com.

Foxtail Farm — Foxtail Farm has been doing business for approximately 25 years in Palm Beach County. Disciplines are in huntseat equitation. Camps focus on horse health, barn care, safety, and also correct seat and balance. Ages are from 5 to 14 years old. Lessons are taught every day at camp, as well as all year long. Horse showing is available as students advance. There is also a focus on training students to become trainers in the future themselves. It is a breakthrough into the world of horses for pleasure, pet or showing, if desired.

Foxtail Farm is licensed and insured. For more information, call Patti Morin (561) 255-4037 or visit www.foxtailfarmstables.com.

Golden Grove Gator Camp — Gator Camp is back and ready for fun! Gator Camp will run for eight one-week sessions June 11 through Aug. 3 for campers aged 5 and up. Campers do not have to be enrolled at Golden Grove to attend. This year, Golden Grove is offering two specialinterest camps. Drama camp runs June 18-29 and Music camp (voice/keyboard) runs July 23-27. Campers receive 4 hours of instruction each day. Campers enjoy f ield trips, on-campus

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High Touch High Tech/The Lab — The Lab is happy to announce that it is expanding into a larger facility conveniently located off State Road 7 and Lantana Road. Science is presented

by High Touch High Tech, the leader in hands-on science education for the last 17 years. Each day will be a new adventure from interacting with “lab critters” to launching rockets and panning for gems. The program offers affordable pricing, experiments with lots of cool science take-homes, art, physical activities and more. The Lab taps into children’s natural curiosity and provides them with safe and fun activities that help them learn about the world around them. Expect awesome fun as kids make slime, erupt volcanoes, make ice cream, tie dye t-shirts and more! The registration fee is waived if you sign up by April 1. Call (561) 7923785 today.

Home Away From Home Summer Camp — If your kids want a great summer camp experience, come to any of Home Away From Home’s four Palm Beach locations now enrolling summer camp programs for children ages 4-10 (limited space is available). The program offers daily indoor and outdoor field trips. Free meals and webcam services are included. It has been rated the “Best Summer Camp Ever!” For more information, visit www.homeawayfromhomechildcare. com or call Wellingt on at (561) 791-8558, P alm Beach Gardens at (561) 627-6170, Jupiter at (561) 747-6916 or West Palm Beach at (561) 802-9090.

The Learning Foundation of Florida’s Academic Summer Camp — TLFF’s elementary, middle and high school summer academic school/camp program has several different service options available to assist the diverse needs of students. TLFF’s K-8th grade summer program focuses on individualized academic remediation. TLFF uses weekly themes, a variety of teaching strategies, including a multi-sensory/hands-on approach and creative lessons. TLFF’s high school summer program focuses on grade forgiveness and/or acceleration. Students who have received D or F grades in classes may redo them for a higher grade. Students can also accelerate and take classes to get ahead. Both programs are open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. t o 12:30 p.m. beginning June 18 and running through Aug. 3. For more information, call TLFF at (561) 795-6886.

Noah’s Ark — Spring Break Camp runs from March 19 through March 26. Children will enjoy field trips and activities such as swimming, bowling, skating, science museum, movies and picnics. Tuition includes camera sur veillance, creative curriculum, computers and all meals.

Registration is being accepted for both Spring Break and Summer Camp. Registration is free for new customers only. Se habla Español. Noah’s Ark is located at 14563 Okeechobee Blvd., Loxahatchee Groves. For more information, call (561) 753-6624 or visit www.smallworldpbc. com.

Royal Palm Covenant Tutoring Summer Camp 2012 — Children ages 5 to 14 will enjoy field trips to Lion Country Safari, museums, parks, bowling, movies, the zoo and activities such as sports, ar ts & crafts, cooking and more fun. Camp runs Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Open enrollment for the camp begins March 2. A one-time registration fee of $25 per child includes a T-Shirt. The camp is located at 660 Royal Palm Beach Blvd., Royal Palm Beach.

Call (561) 793-1077 to register.

Spotlight of Wellington — Truly enhance your child’s per forming ar ts level with Spo tlight of Wellington’s summer intensive workshops. Spotlight welcomes students currently studying the performing arts and those with an undeveloped drive and passion. Sessions are offered according to level and age. Programs stimulate students through challenging, yet fun, experiences in a warm, positive environment. Students train in balle t, jazz, contemporar y, tap, theatre, vocal and hip hop in an intimate and exclusive environment. Student performance levels greatly increase through Spotlight’s intensive experience. Several students have promoted to area schools of the arts. Call (561) 790-7758 today for proper placement, or visit www.spotlightofwellington.com.

Temple Beth Torah’s Leonie Arguetty Preschool — If your child is between 2 and 6 years old, “Summer of Fun” Enrichment Camp at Temple Beth Torah’s Leonie Arguetty Preschool is the place to be! Your child will enjoy a variety of fun activities that will make them smile, while promoting learning and social development. Activities include: arts & crafts, gymnastics, computers, sports, nature, cooking, water play and a state-of-the-art playground. They’re sure to love the weekly entertainment, including High Touch High Tech, storytellers and animal shows. All of this in a loving and nurturing environment. The program is full time or part time for eight weeks. Free summer VPK is available for those entering kindergarten who have not yet used their voucher. No w enrolling for preschool 2012-13. Call Sandy at (561) 793-2649 for more information, or e-mail psdirector@templebethtorah.net.

Tiny Tik es — Tiny Tikes camp is geared toward the elementary-age camper. Daily activities are sure to keep the campers happy, busy and engaged. Trips include bowling, skating and movies weekly, as well as special trips including the zoo, science museum and much more! They have three conveniently located centers which open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. Activities occur throughout the day, both at the center and out on the bus. Meals are included. Call (561) 790-1780 now to reserve your space or visit Tiny Tikes at 16245 Okeechobee Blvd. in Royal Palm Beach.

Villari’s of Wellington — Villari’s is pleased t o invite your child to summer camp this year. Due to the rising demand for summer camps in the western communities, book your spot early.

Villari’s is offering four-week sessions of self-defense camp this year. Call (561) 792-1100 for more information and to reserve your space, or visit www.villarisofwellington.com.

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B. Corey Johnson To Exhibit Gilded Artwork March 23-24

Gilded artwork by Royal Palm Beach artist B. Corey Johnson.

Award-winning artist B. Corey Johnson has announced that his first series of gilded artwork will be on display as a solo art exhibition March 23 and 24 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Sabourin Gallery in Jupiter.

“It is refreshing to see old-world technique with new young approach,” gallery owner Michel Sabourin said.

A Royal Palm beach resident, Johnson has been a gilder for over seven years, hand-making gilded frames with various grades of gold and metal leaf. A few years ago, Johnson set out to challenge public

perception of gilding by developing a technique of creating art with the process itself.

“As an artist, my medium of choice is gilding, although it is typically thought of as a craft,” Johnson said. “It is usually seen as the embellishment that accentuates some other work that has been deemed ‘art.’ Rarely is gilding perceived as a viable art medium that can stand by itself as the finished product.”

Johnson was awarded first place the mixed-media category at ArtiGras. Most people are surprised to learn that there is no use of any

paints, pigments, stains, dyes, toners, inks, tints or glazes on any of the artwork. Johnson has pioneered a technique of creating images using gold and metal leaf combined with acid washes. Each piece is completed with a contemporary watergilded frame.

The exhibit is open to the public.

Johnson will be there both evenings to discuss his process and answer any questions, as wells as perform some small demonstrations of gilding. Sabourin Gallery is located in Driftwood Plaza, 2149 S. U.S. Highway 1. For info., call (561) 747-3575.

‘Three Classic Fairy Tales’ April 5-8 At Convention Center The Palm Beach County Convention Center will feature Disney Live!

Presents Three Classic Fairy Tales April 5-8. When the curtains are drawn back to reveal the all-new stage show experience, audiences will find themselves on an enchanted adventure journeying through the awe-inspiring stories of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.

Mickey, Minnie and more than 25 of their Disney pals make appearances throughout the show where scenes from each story magically come alive to create an unforgettable experience for kids and adults alike.

Produced by Feld Entertainment, Disney Live! Presents Three Classic Fairy Tales is anchored amidst a transforming set, with captivating choreography, innovative lighting and breathtaking costumes, all created to treat families to an authenti-

cally woven tale of “happily ever after.”

Disney Live! Presents Three Classic Fairy Tales begins when Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy embark on an unexpected quest and find a magical storybook hidden in Mickey’s attic. Upon discovery, the four pals curiously turn the pages and discover Snow White as she searches for her one true love, Cinderella getting ready for her magical night at the ball, and Belle as she finds happiness in the most unusual place. Along the way, the audience will be invited to join in on the fun by solving clues, clapping along and singing time-honored songs, such as “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo,” “Heigh Ho” and “Be Our Guest.”

“The interactive nature of this show and the connection the audience will have with real Disney stars is unlike anything we’ve done before,” producer Alana Feld said. “We

wanted to create a show that evokes different emotions and, in the end, leaves moms, dads, kids and even grandparents with smiles on their faces and hope in their hearts.”

This Disney Live! production features behind-the-scenes collaboration from some of the greatest creative talents in live entertainment.

They were challenged to develop show elements that would appeal to audiences from around the world — and the results are “breathtaking,” director Sherilyn Draper said.

The uniquely constructed set of scenic designer Stanley Meyer pays great attention to detail. Starting from Mickey’s attic, the set transforms into an enchanted forest where audiences meet Snow White as she wishes at the wishing well; audiences also encounter the Seven Dwarfs as they traipse through the lush woods on their way to work.

The set then transforms into a bril-

liant castle where Cinderella first sees Prince Charming. At the end, the set is converted into a quaint town in France where the story of Beauty and the Beast unfolds.

Key to supporting the scenic presentation, the lighting takes center stage in Three Classic Fairy Tales.

“I wanted to create patterns that when projected off of different surfaces, the lighting would add new textures and dimensions,” lighting designer Norm Schwab said. “During Cinderella’s ball, we created a scene so luminous that it feels delightfully enchanted. However, when audiences encounter the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, they will witness thunderous hues of light created for a very different kind of enchantment; one that is almost chilling.”

Tickets are available on Ticket master.com and at Walmart. To learn more about Disney Live, visit

www.disneylive.com. Show times are Thursday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m.; Friday, April 6 at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 7 at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m.; and Sunday, April 8 at 1:30 and 5 p.m. Tickets cost $18 to $45.

To purchase tickets, call (800) 7453000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

The Phantom Recommends Jay & The Americans March 26 Two hours of 1960s Hall of Fame Music will awake your “rock ’n’ roll heart.”

Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s was the best, and now to relive the past with one of my favorites of all time coming to Jupiter. It is something I am looking forward to… and so should you!

With John “Jay” Traynor singing lead, Jay and the Americans first hit the Billboard charts in 1962 with the tune “She Cried.” Fortunately for everyone, they were not a one-hit wonder.

They recorded a string of hits over the years, including “Only in America” (remember that from West Side Story?), “Come Dance With Me,” “Come a Little Bit Closer,” “Let’s Lock the Door (And Throw Away the Key),” and my two favorites, “Cara Mia” and “Crying.”

Their popularity continued through the decade, and their list of hits goes on with “This Magic Moment,” “Since I Don’t Have You” and “There Goes My Baby.”

By now, if you have not hummed a few bars of any or all of the above, then stay home.

Otherwise, join me for a night of great music from one of the best groups of the ’60s. Re-

member: “It’s all about enjoying the music,” and Jay and the Americans know what you like!

Jay and the Americans will perform from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, an award-winning professional not-for-profit regional theater dedicated to the performing arts.

Its mission is to entertain, educate and inspire the community. The theater is a member of the League of Resident Theatres and is located east of U.S. 1 at 1001 E. Indiantown Road and State Road A1A in Jupiter.

I hope to see you Monday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, and I am easy to find — I sing the loudest!

All tickets cost $50, and pre-show reception tickets cost $65. For further information, call the box office at (561) 575-2223, and please tell them that Joe Nasuti, the Phantom, highly recommended you call to have the time of your life!

(Right) Jay and the Americans take the stage at 7:30 p.m. March 26 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre.

Joe Nasuti, the Phantom, is a featured writer for the Town-Crier, Forever Young and www.yournews.com. Comments & recommendations are welcome at thephantomdiners@aol.com.

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Breakers West 2012 Summer Camp Calling all campers for a summer of a lifetime. Sports-minded, adventure-seeking, nature-loving kids, ages 5 – 14, will find something for everyone at Breakers West, where there is fun for all.

Daily Golf, Tennis, Basketball & Swimming Instruction Arts & Crafts | Magic Shows Cooking Classes | Wildlife Demonstrations Science Projects Friday’s Famous Family Cookout & Much More...

After Care Available WEEKLY SESSIONS: June 11 – August 17, 2012 {Excl. July 2 – 6} Monday – Friday | 8:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

For more information or to register, please call 561-653-6330.

Weekly sessions are Monday – Friday. No camp July 2 – 6, 2012. Discounts will be offered to families registering multiple children or for multiple sessions. Additional fees apply for After Care. Restrictions apply.

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Wellington Baseball Squad Bests Seminole Ridge 8-2

By Lauren Miró Town-Crier Staff Report The Wellington High School varsity baseball team defeated Seminole Ridge High School 8-2 on Friday, March 16 at the Hawks’ CalleryJudge Stadium.

Though the Hawks fought to hold back the Wolverines, they gave up hits that helped Wellington load the bases and bring in runners.

Wellington scored early with a run

by Jared Tosner in the top of the first inning. However, the Hawks rallied to keep them from scoring again.

But the Hawks couldn’t bring in a run and ended the first inning down 1-0.

Hawk pitcher Courtney King walked Wolverine Brad Riddle in the top of the second. He also walked Michael Cusenza, driving Riddle to

Wellington’s James Lovett keeps his eye on the ball.

second base. A hit by Jacob Aqua pushed Riddle to third and Cusenza to second.

The bases were loaded with one out for Wellington after King walked David Koos, prompting Riddle to head home. With the score 2-0, King was replaced by pitcher Tyler Beck for the Hawks.

But another Wolverine hit brought in Cusenza to make the score 3-0 going into the bottom of the second.

The Hawks attempted to tie up the score in the second inning when Tyler Glover got on first and was driven home by a hit from Cruz Alcazar. Then Jacob Rhemer drove in Alcazar, and the inning finished 3-2.

That would be the last run for Seminole Ridge. Meanwhile, the Wolverines scored five more runs to win the game 8-2.

The Wolverines face the Royal Palm Beach High School Wildcats on Wednesday, March 29 at home for a 7 p.m. game. The Hawks host Santaluces High School on Monday, March 27 for a 7 p.m. game.

Hawk Tyler Farjad tries to tag out Brad Riddle.

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RPBHS Softball Team Edged Out By American Heritage 9-2

By Gene Nardi Town-Crier Staff Report Royal Palm Beach High School’s varsity softball team hosted American Heritage on Thursday, March 15, falling to the Stallions 9-2.

After the first two innings, it appeared the Wildcats (5-9) were headed for an upset over the Stallions (12-1), as Royal Palm Beach was leading 2-0 going into the third. But a seven-run rally by the defending Class 2A state champions proved too much for the Wildcats.

The Stallions would drive in two more runs in the fourth inning to win the contest 9-2. Royal Palm Beach played solid defense in the last three

innings but could not muster the offense needed to put runs on the board. American Heritage played equally as well on defense, holding the Wildcats to just two runs. Five errors early on cost the Wildcats later in the game.

The top performers for the Wildcats were Arianna Hernandez, who had one run, three hits and one RBI. Pitcher Bethany Alex (4-7) had two base hits. Centerfielder Lauren Nickerson caught four fly balls.

The Royal Palm Beach High School softball team was off during spring break but will return to the field hosting Palm Beach Lakes on Tuesday, April 3 at 7 p.m.

Wildcat Arianna Hernandez dives back to third after a lead.

Wildcat pitcher Bethany Alex runs to third base.

Bethany Alex keeps her eye on the ball.

RPB leftfielder Kristina Hayslip makes a play on the ball.

RPB’s Lauren Nickerson tries to tag a Heritage runner.

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Bowon Muay Thai Academy Offering No-Gi Jiu Jitsu Classes Bowon Muay Thai Academy has announced that there is a new program being offered at the Wellington facility. Bowon now features nogi jiu-jitsu classes led by instructor Carlos Montalvo, a brown belt expert in Brazilian jiu-jitsu trained under Wald Bloise of Team Nogueira for the past six years.

This is in addition to the MMA class, which will be taught by Kru Alan Bowonthamachakr and Montalvo, who are experts in standup striking and ground fighting respectively, offering the best of both art forms. Bowonthamachakr is a professional Muay Thai instructor with more than 18 years of experience.

He trained and fought under Ajarn Theparit Lukpanjama, a three-time

Thai Army Muay Thai champion.

Bowonthamachakr and Montalvo both share the same goal and passion on the aspect of MMA, that to be a great mixed martial artist, one must be excel in both arts of standup and ground works, not one or the other. BMTA also has a great strength and conditioning class led by coach Ervis Koci, who is also the assistant trainer at the academy, training under the instruction of Bowonthamachakr for the past five years.

Every class offered at Bowon Muay Thai Academy is well structured for turning an average person into a truly skilled martial artist. With a little hard work, good attendance and dedication, client gain skills that

they never even knew existed. Bowon is there to help them gain the skills and the knowledge needed to become the person they have always wanted to become.

The facility is well equipped with all the equipment and training tools needed to help achieve those goals.

Whether interested in competition, self-defense or simply looking to get in better shape, meet some great friends and discover a fun new hobby, potential clients are invited to stop by and try out a free class.

Bowon Muay Thai Academy is located at 3132 Fortune Way, Suite D-7, in Wellington Commerce Park.

For more information, visit www. facebook.com/bowonmuaythai or call (561) 313-2419.

Team Bowon MMA Trainers — Instructor Carlos Montalvo (no-gi jiujitsu), Kru Alan Bowonthamachakr (Muay Thai boxing) and coach Ervis Koci (strength and conditioning).

Seminole Ridge Track & Field Team Takes Gold And Silver Seminole Ridge High School took the gold and the silver at a track and field meet March 9 against Chaminade, Glades Central, Inlet Grove, Palm Beach Central and Royal Palm Beach high schools.

The Hawk girls finished in first place with a score of 154 points. The team of Cassandra Barrett, Justine DeCarlo Sabrina Kirmani and Kristen Medvetz finished first in the 4X

800-meter run; Cassandra Barrett finished first in the 1,600-meter run; Michelle Howell finished first in the 800-meter and second in the 400meter; Alexandria Jackson finished first in the shot put, with a throw of 39’08”, and in the discus as well, with a throw of 117’07”; Danielle Livingstone finished first with a long jump of 16’11”, and in the 100-meter hurdles; and Michelle Ward finished

second in the high jump, clearing 4’8”. The MVP of the meet went to Sabrina Kirmani, finishing second in the 3,200-meter, then running the 4X 400-meter with only three minutes of rest.

The boys finished second against Glades Central, who took the meet trophy. Hawk standouts were the team of Mario Brown, Gary Holmes, Elie Turene and Ed’Treon Wilcox,

who finished first in the 4x100-meter run; Llewellyn Clarke finished first in the 300-meter hurdles; Blake Kanarek finished first in the 800-meter run; Elie Turene finished first in the 100-meter; Jalen Young finished first in the high jump, clearing 5’10”, first in the long jump, with 19’ 09”, and third in triple jump, with a total of 39’ 07”; and Ed’Treon Wilcox finished second in the 100-meter and first in

the 200-meter.

In other Seminole Ridge sports news, the boys tennis team defeated Glades Central 4-2 on March 13.

Singles players were Jules Pellico (80), Brandon Phan (8-1), Cameron Schneider (8-2) and Kyle Whirlow (4-8). Doubles players included Zeran Engram and Wayne Selogy (28) and Brandon Phan and Luke Ruiz (8-3).

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Susan Lyle To Present ‘Wonderland’ June 16-17 Susan Lyle Dance Studios is currently hard at work on a full production of Adventures in Wonderland, which will debut Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17 at the Palm Beach State College Eissey Campus Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens.

Susan Lyle Studios has been a center for dance and performance in Palm Beach County since 1970. The studio has recently come under new

Brittany Weger, Madison Russo and Breana McGhee.

management and is currently owned and operated by Palm Beach County native Chelsea Nasby.

Nasby began her dance training locally at the Jon Mullen Performing Arts Center in Wellington. She also attended Bak Middle School of the Arts and the Dreyfoos School of the Arts, where she studied dance.

Nasby has been recognized for her “creative and outstanding choreography” on numerous state and national levels, and is a certified member of both Dance Masters of America and Florida Dance Masters. Nasby earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Florida Atlantic University.

The studio has many successful alumni currently studying at the Juilliard School, SUNY Purchase and the University of South Florida.

Many of the younger dancers are attending Bak and Dreyfoos. A number of students have been accepted or are attending prestigious summer programs at Juilliard, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey, Orlando Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Most recently, three young members of the SLS performing company competed at the Dance Masters of America state competition in Ocala. Madison Russo won 2012 Junior

Carley Anderson, Susan Lyle Dance Studio owner Chelsea Nasby and Madison Russo.

Miss Dance of Florida. She was crowned by 2011 Junior Miss Dance Brittany Weger, also a Susan Lyle student. Russo will move on to compete for a national title this July in California. The second runner-up for title was Breana McGhee. In the Performing Arts Division, Carley Anderson won first place solo overall, and Nasby was granted the Best Choreography award for that solo as well.

Performances of Adventures in Wonderland will start at 2:30 p.m.

June 16 and 17.

The Eissey Campus Theatre is located at 3160 PGA Blvd. in Palm Beach Gardens.

For ticket information, or for more information about the school and its upcoming summer intensive, call the Susan Lyle Studios at (561) 966-3650 or visit www.susanlylestudios.com.

Qualify To Win A BMW At Binks Forest Golf Club Golfers of any skill level will have the chance to qualify to win a twoyear lease on a 2012 BMW by participating in the First Tee Challenge on Saturday, March 31 at Binks Forest Golf Club (400 Binks Forest Drive, Wellington).

The program benefits the PGA of America’s Junior Golf initiative. Players donate $10 for a closest-to-thepin shot. Every participant that hits the green receives a $10 gift certificate from Edwin Watts Golf, a 20 percent discount card from Binks on the purchase of any apparel in the golf shop and a sleeve of golf balls.

The person who comes closest to the pin that day will qualify for the April 28 Hole-In-One Shot to win a two-year lease on a 2012 BMW from Braman Motorcars of Palm Beach. The finals will be conducted at Dyer Park (7301 Haverhill Road, West Palm Beach).

“This is a great way for us to give back to junior golf,” said Binks Forest Golf Club Head Professional Wheeler Stewart, a certified PGA veteran of 33 years.

To ensure your shot at “the shot,” make your tee time reservation now by calling (561) 333-5731 and play Binks on Saturday, March 31.

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Saturday, March 24 • Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation’s 2012 Pro/Am Golf Classic will take place Saturday, March 24 at Atlantis Country Club. The cost is $250 per golfer and $75 per spectator. Proceeds benefit the Jay Robert Lauer Hospice & Palliative Care Unit at JFK Medical Center. For more info., call Tournament Director Vicki Rautbord at (561) 6854423 or e-mail vrautbord@hpbcf.org.

• The South Florida Fairgrounds will host the Spring Garage Sale & Flea Market on Saturday, March 24 from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the South Florida Expo Center (9067 Southern Blvd.). More than 100 vendors will be selling old and new items. Vendor spaces start at $65. Early buyers admission is $5 from 7 to 8 a.m. Regular buyer admission is $3 after 8 a.m. For more info., contact annabell@southfloridafair.com or (561) 790-4908.

• Visit the Wellington Green Market on Saturday, March 24 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Wellington Amphitheater (12100 W. Forest Hill Blvd.). Call (561) 753-2484 for more info.

• Wellington’s third annual Ironhorse Motorcycle Ride will take place Saturday, March 24. This ride is free, but rider s are responsible for their own meals and beverages. It is open to all motorcycle enthusiasts. Riders will meet at 9 a.m. at the municipal complex (12300 W. Forest Hill Blvd.) and will depart promptly at 9:30 am. Riders will head north, stopping for lunch at Crawdaddy’s Restaurant in Jensen Beach. Registrations will be accepted the day of the ride. For more info., visit www.wellingtonfl.gov.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host “Writing Series: Crafting a Query Letter” for adults Saturday, March 24 at 9 a.m. Thinking about seeking representation from a literary agent or submitting your work directly to publishers?

Learn how to craft an interesting and effective query letter. Call (561) 790-6030 to preregister.

• Whole Foods Market (2635 State Road 7, Wellington) will host “Super Supper Soups with Sherri” on Saturday, March 24 from noon to 1:30 p.m. There is no charge. Call (561) 904-4000 to pre-register.

• The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host a Chess Club Meeting for age 8 and up Saturday, March 24 at 2:30 p.m. Chess fans unite to practice strategy skills with other players. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

• Nature’s Center (5301 State Road 7, Lake Worth) will host a class on selective pruning Saturday, March 24 at 2 p.m. Owner Jim Doenges will teach the aesthetic and long-term benefits of selective pruning. The class is free to the public and walk-ins are welcome. Call (561) 434-5777 to register.

Visit www.thenaturescenter.com for info.

• The Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center (1977 College Drive, Belle Glade) will feature the Country Legends Band on Saturday, March 24 at 7 p.m. The evening will be a tribute to country legends such as Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr., Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and more. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the Belle Glade or Clewiston chambers of commerce. For more info., visit www.countrylegendsband.com.

Sunday, March 25 • The Tyler McLellan Foundation will host the Tyler’s Team Charity Poker Classic on Sunday, March 25 from noon to 5 p.m. at the Palm Beach Kennel Club (1111 N. Congress Ave., West Palm Beach). The celebrity bounty tournament will feature NFL players.

WPTV’s Keli Fulton will serve as master of ceremonies. For more info., visit www.tyler mclellanfoundation.org or call (561) 2153171.

Monday, March 26 • The Wellington library (1951 Royal Fern Drive) will host “Legos” for age 8 and up Monday, March 26 at 4 p.m. Builders, inspire yourselves to create vehicles or buildings out of Lego pieces. Call (561) 790-6070 to pre-register.

• The Wellington Chamber of Commerce will hold a Strategic Alliance Workshop presented by the Small Business Committee on Monday, March 26 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Binks Forest Golf Club (400 Binks Forest Drive, Wellington). The cost is $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers. For more info., call (561) 792-6525.

Tuesday, March 27 • The Palm Beach County Commission will hold a workshop meeting Tuesday, March 27 at 9:30 a.m. at the government center’s Jane M. Thompson Memorial Chambers (301 N. Olive Ave., sixth floor, West Palm Beach). For more info., visit www.pbcgov. com.

• The Royal Palm Beach Community Band will perform a free concert Tuesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center (151 Civic Center Way). Call (561) 790-5149 for more info.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR CALENDAR, continued from page 44 • The Wellington Village Council will meet Tuesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. at the municipal complex (12300 W. Forest Hill Blvd.).

For more info., call (561) 791-4000 or visit www.wellingtonfl.gov.

Wednesday, March 28 • The International Polo Club Palm Beach (3667 120th Avenue South, Wellington) will host the Nespresso 108th U.S. Open Polo Championship 26-goal tournament from Wednesday, March 28 through Sunday, April 22. Visit www.internationalpoloclub.com for more info.

• The Wellington Chamber of Commerce will hold its 2012 Business Excellence Awards and Installation of Officers on Wednesday, March 28 at the Wanderers Club (1900 Aero Club Drive). Registration will take place at 11:30 a.m., and the luncheon will begin at noon. For more info., call (561) 7926525 or visit www.wellingtonchamber.com.

• Whole Foods Market (2635 State Road 7, Wellington) will feature “Kids Taste Test” for ages 5 to 12 on Wednesday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m. Have your kids ever tried dinosaur kale, kumquats or jicama? Would you like to tempt their taste buds and have them try something new? Kids who taste every item will earn a special prize. All children must be accompanied by a parent. There is no charge.

Call (561) 904-4000 to pre-register.

• The Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Palm Beach County will host its 17th annual Giraffe Awards on Wednesday, March 28 at the Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion in West Palm Beach. There will be an auction and expo from 5:30 to 7 p.m., with a dinner and ceremony to begin at 7 p.m. For more info., visit www.womenschamber.biz or call (561) 684-4523.

• Fine art photographer Barbara Sloan will feature her Equestrian-Themed Photography Exhibit on Wednesday, March 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Frames America in Kobosko’s Crossing (9308 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington).

For more info., call (561) 790-1777.

Thursday, March 29 • The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host “Alphabet Story Time: D, E, F” on Thursday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m. for ages 4 to 6, for those who cannot attend morning story times. Enjoy stories about things beginning with D, E and F, plus sing songs and make a simple craft. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• Parents and students are invited to attend a free college planning lecture Thurs-

day, March 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Wellington High School media center. David Eisenson, president of College Planning Masters, will cover a variety of topics. The cost is $10 per ticket or three for $25. For more info., contact debate coach Paul Gaba at gaba@wellingtondebate.com or (561) 7954911, or visit www.wellingtondebate.com.

Friday, March 30 • Whole Foods Market (2635 State Road 7, Wellington) will host “Mom’s Morning Escape and Goddard School Arts & Crafts Corner” on Friday, March 30 from 9 to 11 a.m.

Moms will receive a free mini-massage, coffee or tea, and muffin while children of all ages participate in the Goddard School Arts & Crafts Corner. There is no charge. There will also be a children’s clothing sale, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Whole Planet Foundation. Call (561) 9044000 to pre-register.

• The Royal Palm Beach library (500 Civic Center Way) will host a Go Club event Friday, March 30 at 4:30 p.m. for ages 8 to 17. A local member of the American Go Foundation will teach you how to play this ancient Asian strategy game. Adults with young family members are also welcome to play. Call (561) 790-6030 to pre-register.

• The South Palm Beach County Chapter of the National Parkinson Foundation will hold its 2012 Parkinson Educational Conference on Friday, March 30 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center (151 Civic Center Way). The conference is free for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers. Admission for professionals is $100. There will be a continental breakfast and lunch for all attendees. For info., e-mail Milka Santos at msantos@parkinsoninfo.net or call Jack Mueller at (561) 482-3106.

• Whole Foods Market (2635 State Road 7, Wellington) will host a Guatemalan Buffet in honor of the Whole Planet Foundation on Friday, March 30 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Grocery Team Leader Chris Perez will share his experience working with women in Guatemala who were given the opportunity to change their own lives. The slide show presentation will take place in the cafe at 6:30 p.m. Dinner tickets can be purchased for a $5 donation to the Whole Planet Foundation. Call (561) 904-4000 for more info.

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Must have a 4 year degree preferably in Mathmetics or English.

Be available to tutor on Saturdays.

Please e-mail your resume to marlenegiraud@hlcwellington.com VOLUNTEERS NEEDED — 14 years and over for community service. Have fun with animals & kids 792-2666 DRIVERS! DRIVERS! DRIVERS! Drivers wanted for Wellington Cab. Retirees welcome. Cleaning Driving Record. Call 561-333-0181 ENTR Y LEVEL RECEPTIONIST — Computer literate. Heavy phones & filing. Fax resume 561-333-2680 WINDOW INSTALLERS WANTED Subcontractors only. Top Pay. No Brokers. Call Matt 561-714-8490 FRONT DESK — Loxahatchee/ Boynton Beach. Busy Dermatology practice, full-time, experience preferred, must be available for flexible hours, evenings and weekends. Fax resume to 561-790-7568 MEDICAL ASSISTANT NEEDED IN LOXAHAT C H E E / B O Y N TO N BEACH — Busy Dermatology practice, full-time, experience preferred, must be available for flexible hours, evenings and weekends. Fax resume to 561-790-7568 FEMALE STUDENT AU/PAIR — wanted in Argentina to teach English to three children. Air Fare p aid. Live in six-months. Duties Monday to Friday 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. and one day at weekends to help with sports activities etc. Drivers License a plus.

Det ails and terms to be discussed.

Please call 561-792-4828.

COMMUNITY SER VICE HOURS CAMP COUNSELORS — needed for Summer Horse Camp. Must have experience with Horses, and be over the age of 13. 561-793-4109

2001 20f t PROLINE WALK AROUND — 150XL Mercury saltwater series outboard, Depth/fish finder, vhf, stereo/cd/ipod player .

Bimini top, fish rigged, port a poddy, cover. Boat in great shape. 2008 continental trailer. $14,500 561-7627000

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JOHN C. HUNTON AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION, INC.—Service & new inst allation FPL independent participating contractor. Lic. CAC 057272 Ins. "We are proud supporters of the Seminole Ridge Hawks" 561-798-3225.

Family Owned & Operated since 1996. Credit Cards Accepted

AVAILABLE LICENSED CHRISTIAN CAREGIVER — with speciality in Dementia and Alzheimer ’s clients will provide quality and compassionate care for your loved ones, in Wellington and surrounding Western Communities. Clean Background check, CPR FL Licensed, experienced and trustworthy. 561-602-4833

MOBILE-TEC ON-SITE COMPUTER SERVICE — The computer experts that come to you! Hardware/ Software setup, support & troubleshooting w w w.mobiletec.ne t.

561-248-2611 D.J. COMPUTER — Home & of fice, Spyware removal, websites, networks, repairs, upgrades, virus removal, tutoring. Call Jeff 561-3331923 Cell 561-252-1186 Lic’d Well. & Palm Beach. We accept major credit cards.

HAPPY JACK LIQUIVIC — Recognized safe & effective against hook & roundworms by US Center for Veterinary Medicine. Grand Prix Call 561-792-2853 or visit our website at www.happyjackinc.com STOP SCRATCHING AND GNAWING — Promote healing & hair growth.StampoutITCHAMCALLITTS! Shampoo with HAPPY JACK Itch No More. Apply Skin Balm add Tonekote to diet. Goldcoast Feed 793-4607 visit our website www.kennelvax.com

DRIVEWAYS — Free estimates A & M ASPHALT SEAL COATING commercial and residential. Patching potholes, striping, repair existing asphalt & save money all work guaranteed. Lic.& Ins. 100045062 561-667-7716

HANDYMAN AND CLEANING SERVICES — Caza Services for all your handyman and cleaning needs. 18 years experience. No job is too small. Call us today. Insured 561-802-8300 or 754-242-3459

MINOR ROOF REPAIRS DON HARTMANN ROOFING — Roof painting, Carpentry. Lic. #U13677 967-5580 ROBERT G. HARTMANN ROOFING — Specializing in repairs. Free estimates, Bonded,insured. Lic. #CCC 058317 Ph: 561-790-0763.

AQUATIC SPRINKLER, LLC — Complete repair of all types of systems. Owner Operated. Michael 561-964-6004Lic.#U17871 Bonded & Ins. Serving the Western Communities Since 1990

ANMAR CO.—James’ All Around Handyman Service. Excellent craf tman Old time values. Once you’ve had me! You’ll have me back!

Lic. Ins. Certified Residential Contractor CRC 1327426 561-248-8528

ROOFING REPAIRS REROOFING ALL TYPES — Pinewood Construction, Inc. Honest and reliable.

Serving Palm Beach County for over 20 years. Call Mike 561-3090134 Lic. Ins. Bonded. CGC023773 RC-0067207 ROBERT CHERRY ROOFING INC Reroofing - Repair - Waterproofing 561-791-2612 or 954-741-4580 State Lic.& Ins. #CCC-1326048 JOHN C. BEALE BUILDING & ROOFING — Additions, remodeling, roof rep airs & replacements, screened porches. Licensed & Insured. Call for Free Estimates. 561798-6448 ccc1326383 ccc1250306

SPECIALIZING IN BATHROOM REMODELING — Free estimates serving South Florida since 1980.

Quality you expect, service you deserve. Lic. bonded & Ins. U21006 561-662-9258

HOUSECLEANING — 20 yrs experience. Excellent local references. Shopping available. 561572-1782 HOUSECLEANING — af fordable cleaning services, Royal Palm Maids. 561-666-7738 “For all your cleaning needs”

HURRICANE SHUTTERS P&M CONTRACT ORS — ACCORDION SHUTTERS Gutters, screen enclosures, siding, sof fits, aluminum roofs, Serving the Western Communities. Since 1985. U-17189 561-791-9777

BOB CAVANAGH ALLSTATE INSURANCE — Auto •Home • Life• Renters •Motorcycle •RV • Golfcart • Boat Serving the Western Communities for 24 years Call for a quote 798-3056, or visit our website. www.allstateagencies.com/ rCavanagh

RJA PAINTING & DECORATING, INC. — Interior Exterior, Faux Finish, Residential,Commercial.Lic. #U17536 Rocky Armento, Jr. 561793-5455 561-662-7102 J&B PRESSURE CLEANING & PAINTING, INC. — Established 1984. All types of pressure cleaning, roofs, houses, driveways, patios etc. Commercial & Residential.

Interior & Exterior painting. Certified pressure cleaning & painting contractor. Lic. #U21552 Call Butch 309-6975 or visit our website at www.jbpressurecleaningandpainting.com

JOHN PERGOLIZZI PAINTING INC. — Interior/Exterior - Repaint specialist, pressure cleaning, popcorn ceiling, drywall repair & roof painting. Family owned/owner operator. Free Est. 798-4964 Lic. #U18473 COLORS BY CORO, INC. — Int./ Ext. residential painting, over 20 yrs exp. Small Jobs welcome. Free est. Ins. 561-383-8666. Owner/Operated. Lic.# U20627 Ins. Wellington Resident \

MAKE $100 - $300 PER DA Y— Daily pay! START FREE! For info call Richard at 1-800-729-9268

THE MASTER HANDYMAN — All Types of Home Repairs & Improvements. No job too big or small done right the first time every time 40 yrs of satisfied customers. See me on Angies List. Tom (561) 801-2010 or (954) 444-3178 Serving Palm Beach and Broward Counties.

BILLY’S HOME REPAIRS INC. REMODEL & REPAIRS — Interior Trim, crown molding, rottenwood repair, door installation, minor drywall,kitchens/cabinets / countertops, wood flooring. Bonded and Insured U#19699. Call 7919900 or 628-9215

JEREMY JAMES PLUMBING — Licensed plumber, legitimate estimate. Water heaters, new construction. CFC1426242. Bonded Insured. CFC1426242. 561-6016458

J&B PRESSURE CLEANING & PAINTING, INC. — Established 1984. All types of pressure cleaning, roofs, houses, driveways, patios etc. Commercial & Residential.

Interior & Exterior p ainting.

Certified pressure cleaning & painting contractor. Lic. #U21552 Call Butch at 309-6975 or visit us at www.jbpressurecleaningandpainting.com

SECURITY — American owned local security comp any in business 30 plus years. Protection by officers drug tested. 40 hour course. Licensed & Insured. 561-848-2600

JOHN’S SCREEN REPAIR SERVICE — Pool & patio rescreening.

Stay tight,wrinkle-free,guaranteed!

CRC1329708 call us 798-3132. www.poolscreenrepair.com

ACCORDION SHUTTERS — Gutters, screen enclosures, siding, soffits, aluminum roofs, Serving the Western Communities. Since 1985.

U-17189 561-791-9777

Legal Notice No. 555 Notice Under Fictitious Name Florida Statute 865.09 Public notice is hereby given that the undersigned desires to engage in business under the fictitious name of:

ANIMAL CRACKERS Located at: 17773 90TH STREET N LOXAHATCHEE, FL 33470 County of Palm Beach, Florida and intends to register said name with the Division of Corporations State of Florida,forthwith

ANIMAL ANTICS, INC. OWNER Publish :Town-Crier Newspapers Date: 3-23-12 Legal Notice No. 556 Notice Under Fictitious Name Florida Statute 865.09 Public notice is hereby given that the undersigned desires to engage in business under the fictitious name of:

CAVIARA Located at: 2250 76th Street, 2nd Floor East Elmhurst, NY 11370 & DOING BUSINESS IN MULTIPLE COUNTIES IN FLORIDA County of Palm Beach, Florida and intends to register said name with the Division of Corporations State of Florida,forthwith

SK ACS, INC. SAEED KHAN Publish :Town-Crier Newspapers Date: 3-23-12 T OWN-CRIER CLASSIFIEDS GET RESULTS CALL 793-3576 TODAY TO PLACE YOUR AD HERE!

STEAMPRO TILE & CARPET CLEANING — Residential & Commericial. 561-818-8635 (office) 561-255-9098 (cell) Licensed, Bonded and Insured.

TREES TRIMMED AND REMOVED — 561-798-0412 D.M. YOUNG TREE SERVICE. Family Owned & Operated Lic. & Insured 1992-12121 Visit our website at dmyoungtreeservice.com

PAPERHANGING BY DEBI — Professional Installation,Removal.

Repair of Paper. Neat, Clean & Reliable. Quality work with a woman's touch. 30 years experience. No Job too big or too small. Lic. & Ins. References available. 561-795-5263

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